Pegged Bricks
Building Brick
1930s (designed), 1955-1965 (manufactured)
1930s (designed), 1955-1965 (manufactured)
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Set of building blocks of polished wood, each with a round peg in the centre at the top and a matching hole drilled in the bottom.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 7 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Polished wood |
| Brief description | Pegged Bricks; English; 1960s |
| Physical description | Set of building blocks of polished wood, each with a round peg in the centre at the top and a matching hole drilled in the bottom. |
| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by Dr. Franz Morgenstern |
| Object history | Given by the son of the designer. The object had previously been displayed at Museum of Childhood as part of the exhibition 'A Tribute to Marjorie Abbatt' in 1989. |
| Historical context | Part of a range designed for children with learning disabilites by Milan Morgenstern based on his observations of children at the Theodor Heller Foundation in Vienna in the 1930s. |
| Production | The object, though designed in the 1930s, was not manufactured until the late 1950s or early 1960s. It was sold as 'Abbatt Developmental Toys for Assessment & Training' in England where Morgenstern and his family had settled in the late 1930s. This was probably the first range of commercially produced toys designed for children with disabilities. |
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| Accession number | B.924:1 to 7-1993 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2000 |
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