Toy hen
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic and printed cardboard
Measurements
162 mm (length of packaging); 100 mm (width of packaging)
Place of origin
Hong Kong
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659239
Summary
A yellow moulded plastic hen with red plastic wings, legs and feet and black painted eyes and red comb. It is enclosed in a clear plastic bag, secured to a blue printed label. On one side of the label is a coloured picture of the hen and the words 'Busy Hen'. On the reverse side of the label is 'the hen/that lays/ eggs!/No.6111 MADE IN HONG KONG.' and instructions of how to play a game with the hen and how to insert eggs.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr S. Feber in January 1984.