Windsor Writing Chair (RETIRED)

The chair: This is a nice, solid piece of furniture of the same dark wood as Felicity's other pieces. Very period appropriate and straight off the cover of her school story. The arm moves so you can easily get Felicity in and out of it, and she looks nice sitting in it. I do have to disagree with the above poster, though -- I don't see any way to get all of her Reading & Writing Lesson on it at the same time. It holds two pieces plus the sander maximum, not that that's a problem as it would look odd any larger. My only criticism is the drawer, which is just too small to hold the inkwell. It would have been a convenient place to store it. The rest of the Reading & Writing Lesson will fit, however. A




(Excuse Felicity's inappropriate dress. I am way too lazy to change her into something she actually would have worn to lessons for the sake of one picture.)

The inkwell and quill: I have the Mattel version, so my chair came with these. The inkwell is white and blue, which I suppose goes well with the Tea Lesson plate and saucer if you have the whole school set out at the same time. Just a nice little piece of porcelain. The quill was way too small for Felicity, though I expect there's some variance in those. The quill I got with my Reading & Writing Lesson is much larger. A


Pre-Mattel on top, Mattel on bottom.


Pre-Mattel on left, Mattel on right.

The bottoms of both versions have a handwritten Pleasant Company stamp. The Mattel version has a sticker saying it was made in Indonesia, the PM one for Taiwan.