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Mattresses Do and undo, the mattress’s work. The old mattresses were filled with sheep wool or corn spike leaves. This type of filling required to undo them periodically to sponge the compacted filling for use and sanitize it. The mattress unthrew the...

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Toy horse  Stone cardboard horse painted in green tones, with the red mounting chair on wooden platform with bearings. These toys were made with paper and used cardboard that was crushed mixed with water. The resulting paste was tamised and pressed in separate folds...

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Bed warmer Exposed on the bed we find the “calfallits”, which is an iron container with a wooden handle to heat the bed before getting into bed. When the fire of the fireplace had been turned off, the hot embers of the fireplace were introduced under the...

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Desk  This small pupitre of blue-painted wood belonged to the girl “Anita Guzm’n”, who wrote her name inside the lid. Within it is exhibited a manuscript notebook and three school books by the publishing house Dalmau Carles Pla S.A., from Girona...

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Radius Receiver A chapel style radius receiver, inside it contains a metal sheet with data on the manufacturer and model. These receptors replaced the first galena models until the transistor appeared in the 1940s. The exhibition is associated with a screen in which...

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Shoe sewing machine Shoe Sewing machine Singer brand, model 18-2, with series number G7194501. These machines were built ex professo for all kinds of jobs that in their special form needed a narrow arm, such as the composing of boots, shoes, etc.,In Torrent, a...