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Jaws

Craft Kit
1975 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Card box printed in colours to show the title, maker's details and illustrations of the modelling kit contains a plastic bottle, shark, cork stopper and frame instructions.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 15 parts.

  • Box Lid
  • Box Base
  • Background Scene
  • Paper Slip
  • Instruction Sheet
  • Bottle
  • Bottle
  • Shark
  • Shark
  • Cork Bottle Stopper
  • Frame
  • Frame
  • Frame
  • Fin
  • Part of Modelling Kit
Titles
  • Jaws (manufacturer's title)
  • Super Scene, Scene in a Bottle (series title)
Materials and techniques
Printed card, moulded plastic, cork
Brief description
Addar Products Corp, USA, 1975
Physical description
Card box printed in colours to show the title, maker's details and illustrations of the modelling kit contains a plastic bottle, shark, cork stopper and frame instructions.
Dimensions
  • Length: 9.25in
  • Width: 5in
  • Depth: 3in
Production typemass produced
Copy number
231
Marks and inscriptions
21.1.76 (hand written on slip of paper test date by Palitoy)
Credit line
Given by the Palitoy Company
Object history
Part of the Palitoy Archive

Based on the successful film of the 1970s entitled JAWS
Production
the test date is 21.1.76

Reason For Production: retail
Collection
Accession number
B.365:1-1998

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Record createdNovember 22, 2000
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