Summer Amusements (Retired)

[HelloMiss]

I got this set off Ebay last month and I really love it! I got the first version with the two compartments and 6 tubes of paints.

I love that the paint is actually real and if you wanted to, you could paint a picture.

Lydia's book is so lovely as well! The paintings inside are really quite lovely and it gives you a good peek at what Sam was like as a toddler and of course see her Mom and Dad also. ;D

[C.I.Fairfield]

I got this off of ebay. Mine is the later version with five (larger) tubes of paint. Even after all these years, the paint was still good! (I had meant to bid on the six-tube version, bu missed it.)

This is a marvelous set and well worth buying, even at inflated ebay prices.



The pack basket isn't part of the set, it was just there to prop it up.

[AztecQueen2000]

I got mine off ebay, and would give it an A overall--especially the tuffet, which smells like pine! I like the pictures in the sketchbook, but thought there'd be more of them. Oh well. At least I have it.

[geneva26]

This is such a beautiful, detailed, and functional set. I love that the paint box and palette are real wood. I have the five-tube set, and apparently there is a variation in the paint tubes. One, which I'm sure is older, has metal tubes (it looks like the six-tube set had the same). The other has the same colors in plastic tubes. The metal tubes, while very realistic, are easily crumpled and probably easily torn. The original owner of my metal set told me that the yellow tube started leaking and had to be thrown out. Plus, another of the tubes looks a little corroded at the base. Although my inclination is to prefer anything made of metal over plastic, I think the switch to plastic in this particular case was probably wise.

[geneva26]

Metal vs. plastic tubes: