One of my favorite dollhouse sets is the Marx Newlywed Series from the 1920s. These were small-scale sheet-steel lithographed rooms, sold either individually or as a set. There were six rooms total, but they were designed to sit in a carboard house which held four at a time. The rooms came fully furnished, and were compatible with some of the tin-litho Cracker Jack premiums of the same era. (More about that later.)
My Newlywed rooms are shown below. I love the detail of the walls:
Library
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Parlor
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Bedroom
Kitchen
Dining Room
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Bathroom
I also added several Cracker Jack prizes for the furniture. I placed the grandfather clock in the library, and the chair in the bedroom.
I have not been able to find an original cardboard house, but the rooms display nicely in an Ikea CD holder.
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