Wooden Toy Set
ca. 1920 (carved)
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Group of traditional German toys hand carved from wood and painted. This includes a varied number of objects such as a farmhouse with white and red gabled roof, two sections of two-barred fences in mid-green, two in dark green and one with carved hens attached, nine hens painted with feathers, a wheelbarrow painted green with a brown wheel, a cow with bell and black collar, five conical trees stained green, two trees in a comparatively naturalistic style, a pale green coal cart drawn by two horses, a soldier in blue uniform on a brown horse, a soldier in red uniform, a soldier in red unifom on a grey horse, a room setting with two women spinning, a set of three swingboats on a grey frame, an orange swingboat on a grey frame, a blue and green swingboat on a grey frame, a stall with an umbrella and a woman in a headscarf and blue apron, a stall with an umbrella and a woman in a headscarf and red apron farmyard animals, covered stall with a man, dressed in brown, selling boots, covered stall with a man, dressed in grey, selling boots, and two covered stalls each with a man in grey tailcoats and black trousers.
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Parts | This object consists of 40 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Carved and painted or stained wood, metal |
Brief description | Wooden toy set, forty pieces, carved and painted or stained wood, metal, Germany, ca.1920 |
Physical description | Group of traditional German toys hand carved from wood and painted. This includes a varied number of objects such as a farmhouse with white and red gabled roof, two sections of two-barred fences in mid-green, two in dark green and one with carved hens attached, nine hens painted with feathers, a wheelbarrow painted green with a brown wheel, a cow with bell and black collar, five conical trees stained green, two trees in a comparatively naturalistic style, a pale green coal cart drawn by two horses, a soldier in blue uniform on a brown horse, a soldier in red uniform, a soldier in red unifom on a grey horse, a room setting with two women spinning, a set of three swingboats on a grey frame, an orange swingboat on a grey frame, a blue and green swingboat on a grey frame, a stall with an umbrella and a woman in a headscarf and blue apron, a stall with an umbrella and a woman in a headscarf and red apron farmyard animals, covered stall with a man, dressed in brown, selling boots, covered stall with a man, dressed in grey, selling boots, and two covered stalls each with a man in grey tailcoats and black trousers. |
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Credit line | Given by Mrs Greg |
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Accession number | MISC.13:1 to 40-1986 |
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Record created | February 23, 2004 |
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