Half Kits Coty - restored and happy again
No. 18 ("Half-size Kits" or "Half Kits"), pre-1909. Dimensions: 26 inches [66 cm] wide, 19 inches [48 cm] deep and 35 inches [89 cm] high I have yearned for a Kits Coty house since I first began collecting but I never thought I'd own one. Ok, so its a half Kits Coty (they came in three sizes). This one has had a rough life - it came to me very grubby and daubed in horrible black gloss paint with a hideous red front door but I knew what was lurking beneath. There were broken bits, pieces of the roof had been reassembled wrong but I just knew we could fix it. Originally, the left side of the roof were supplied loose so they could be lifted off and furniture added. They have very often gone missing over the years so I was delighted to find ours intact. some previous owner had glued it down and it is probably due to this that we still have the original. It took a bit of brute force to jemmy it off but it came away with an explosion of ancient dust and flaking pai...