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Dump the plastic with this dumper truck

This tipping dumper truck has steerable front wheels, a tipping rear with swinging back. It is made in Europe from managed forests.There is not one piece of plastic on these vehicles or in their packaging! 38cm long At £68 this is toy designed to last

A Perfect Playful Pull-along Pooch

A puppy isn’t just for Christmas. Take this cute chap home and you’ll have a puppy you can pass down the generations. Pull him along head up, ears waving in the wind, or slowly nose to the floor following a scent, he’ll even sit up and beg. about 25cm long £18, not bad for a pedigree!

Magic from the New Forest – Elvish Wands

Our wands are made from hand-coppiced hazel and silver birch. Coppicing is the traditional forestry practice of cutting these short-lived trees, to encourage regrowth and as a consequence increase biodiversity of the woodland. Our wands are sourced from the award-winning Pondhead Conservation Trust based a mile from our shop. Hand-cut then walked home where they are shaped on a shave horse with a draw knife, then dried on our aga. Next walked up to the shop…

A New Forest Fawn wooden card

All our wooden cards are designed by us and are unique to our shop. They are made from layers of veneer attached to a card backing. We feel at £3.50 it is good value, though we have been told it’s a little deer! Inside is blank, comes with envelope

Pocket jigsaw with whimsies (and dead dragons)

This wooden jigsaw has 40 pieces, but it laser cut out of wood, so the pieces can be any shape; there are ‘whimsies’ cut into it; shapes of animals rather than uniform jigsaw shapes. Also the corners are bisected so you can’t even start with the corners! The picture is our own of Boltons Bench On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBenchLyndhurst/ or google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/W8dLPFV1q2n £8 (we have six designs and a larger 250 piece size) This apparently…

Buy a spoon- save a fridge

Want an inexpensive memory of the New Forest, but worried another fridge magnet might be the final straw that rips the door off your fridge? At 12″ this solid beech spoon will create quite a stir with it’s laser engraved handle. In case you can’t read it in thne picture, there is a grazing horse followed by the words ‘The new forest’ followed by a line of four deer. All for the stirring cost of…

Tree rings – rings from trees

Our tri-band rings are made of three thin slices of wood bonded together. We have a number of different timbers, but our most common pairing is English yew on the outside with a band of walnut through the middle. Sorry we cannot make to order (we tried, it was too stressful to get the size right!) We have every half size from E to Z+ (English sizes) at £19 each

A piggy bank; how about opening a new branch

You don’t get more natural and tactile than these piggy banks. Made from a solid branch with a slot in the top and a removable rear to get your money out. Cute porkers with faux leather ears and curly tail. standing 14cm high and about 20cm long £22

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