String toy
Lehmann
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1925
Materials
Printed tinplate
Measurements
200 mm (height of monkey); 730 mm (height of whole toy);
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659937
Summary
A toy tinplate monkey with jointed arms and legs. He wears lithographed clothing consisting of a green jacket, red breeches, a yellow waistcoat, a white shirt with a black painted ribbon around the neck. Also a red fez with a black thread tassel. A thread runs through a hole between his hands to holes within his hollow body and a hole between his feet and tail. At the end of the thread hangs a metal weight. He pulls himself down the weighted thread using his jointed arms and legs.
Makers and roles
Lehmann, manufacturer