Baby's toy
Kurt Naef (1926 - 2006)
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard and wood
Measurements
312 mm (length of box); 55 mm (width of box); 72 mm (height of box)
Place of origin
CH-4314 Zeiningen
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659421
Summary
A rectangular brown cardboard box with a hinged lid. On one side of the box are 6 circular holes and the word KUGELBAU is printed in black ink. On another, printed diagrams of the balls sitting inside a circular recess on one side of the wooden blocks. On another side is printed in black ink 'naf nef./ KUGELBAU/ Nr. 9407/ Design Kurt Naef/ Swiss made/ Kurt Naef/ CH-4314 Zeiningen'. Inside the box are six wooden blocks each with a coloured circular shaped recess on each side. There are also six coloured wooden balls - red, yellow, green, purple, orange and blue - these colours correspond to the circular shaped recesses on the sides of each block. Total number of items is thirteen
Makers and roles
Kurt Naef (1926 - 2006), maker