Before I get into a discussion of the furniture set key
lithos, here's a little background on the sets themselves: of the eight Precious Places furniture sets, four of them were manufactured for the course of the two years the line was in production. These are the Kitchen, Living Room, Bathroom and Baby's Nursery sets. Two sets were manufactured only in 1989: the Dining Room (but see my
earlier post) and the Bedroom. The remaining two sets were manufactured only in 1990: the Canopy Bedroom and the Playroom.
I think this background is important for understanding the key
litho situation of the furniture sets. You see,
thisoldtoy.com (TOT) has each PP set listed with a description of the key
litho. For the Kitchen, Living Room and Bedroom is says that the key "has no
litho". However, for the Bathroom, Baby's Nursery and Playroom it says "unknown description of
litho". I would like to suggest that the Bathroom and the Baby's Nursery sets should also be listed as "has no
litho" and here's why...
I believe that for whatever reason only furniture sets that were put into production in 1990 (Canopy Bedroom & Playroom) have key
lithos. I agree with TOT that the Canopy Bedroom key looks like this:
and I would like to propose that the following key is the Playroom key, since the balloon motif matches the litho on the Playroom puppet show:
Other than these two keys, I have seen no other lithos that could possibly belong to the Bathroom or Baby's Nursery furniture sets, so unless I am wrong about the balloon key belonging to the Playroom or if there are lithos out there I've never seen, I will continue to assert that the Bathroom and Baby's Nursery (along with the Kitchen, Living Room and Bedroom) never came with lithos for their respective keys.
Have you ever seen any lithos that you don't know what sets to which they belong? Do you have a key with a litho for any of the furniture sets besides the Canopy Bedroom and Playroom? As always, I would love to hear about it so I can complete my Precious Places collection!
