Sometimes instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour, I stay up late scrolling through eBay and Etsy looking for interesting half scale stuff. The best finds are the ones where the seller doesn’t know what they have.
Last week I randomly searched Etsy for “1:24 window” because once like two years ago there was a big lot of Majestic Mansions windows that I didn’t buy and wished I had, and you never know when that might happen again.
This innocuous search landed me on this listing for a 1:24 window that frankly looks too big for half scale, but is marked as 1:24 on the packaging. The seller (JHFCollectables) wasn’t one I remembered seeing before and I clicked through to the store to see if they had anything else.
Readers, I was not disappointed.
I ended up buying six lots from them. Each one had only one picture, and in the pics that included a ruler, it wasn’t particularly helpful. But I had a good feeling that it was all half scale, and I could tell some was artisan, so I decided to spin the wheel and take my chances.
1) Rope Bed ($5)
I recognized this bed since I already have one just like it. It was made by Warren Dick and is signed on the bottom. Here it is next to the one I bought last year (for much more than $5) painted by Karen Markland. I’ll use one of these in the Mansard Victorian.
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
