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Play Gallery, Build It, Case 2

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Plastic Building Blocks

Building Block
ca. 1946 (made)
Artist/Maker
Chad Valley Company Limited (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Birmingham (made)

Plastic building blocks contained in original blue cardboard box, together with a book of designs. Each brick is 5 sided, hollow inside with strengthening bars and cross bars. They are moulded plastic, in white, red, blue, black and green.


Object details

Categories
Dolls & Toys
Access_to_Images 2003
Children & Childhood
Games
SCRAN
Construction Toys
Object type
Building block
Parts
This object consists of 4 parts.

  • Building Blocks
  • Packaging
  • Packaging
  • Instructions
TitlePlastic Building Blocks (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Plastic
Plastic
Brief description
Building blocks, Chad Valley, English, c. 1946
Physical description
Plastic building blocks contained in original blue cardboard box, together with a book of designs. Each brick is 5 sided, hollow inside with strengthening bars and cross bars. They are moulded plastic, in white, red, blue, black and green.
Dimensions
  • Box length: 12.25in
  • Box width: 10.5in
  • Blocks height: 1in
Marks and inscriptions
  • CHAD VALLEY BUILDING BLOCK (On each brick)
  • Plastic Building Blocks. Third set of models for children aged 8 years upward. Including PRE-SCHOOL BLOCKS for ages 2 to 5. (Label on box)
Gallery label
29. BUILDING BLOCKS Made by Chad Valley, Great Britain, about 1946 Plastic Given by Mr. D.Gill Misc.2-1989 Chad Valley produced a wide range of educational toys in plastic as well as wood from the 1930s onwards. The bricks are like those originally produced in wood, similar in style to their 19th-century counterparts; only the material is different.
Credit line
Given by Mr D. Gill
Object history
RP 1987/941
Collection
Young V&A Collection
Accession number
MISC.2-1989

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Record createdMarch 27, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148367/plastic-building-blocks-building-block-chad-valley-company/
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