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Peter Mason Opie

Career Writer / Historian

Biography Book collector and historian of childhood lore according to Dictionary of National Biography entry [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 19/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31517 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Opie

County No counties listed

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1954

Dates active 1918-1982

Donated around 1954

English collections Whistle of plastic, in shape of bird, christmas drawing

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 2

Connections Woolworths / Joan Hassall

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