Windmill
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, metal, paper
Measurements
90 mm (width); 185 mm (height); 88 mm (depth)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660053
Summary
A model windmill made mostly from wood, with no base. Its front and back are wooden, as are the roof and sails, but the sides are made of cardboard. The walls are painted green with a black stripe around the building approximately halfway up. The windows (one on the front, one on the back, two on the left side and one on the right) are made from rectangles of black paper glued on, with their frames painted on in white. The door, on the right-hand side, is cut out of the cardboard (ie the left-hand side is left attached as the hinges) and painted black. Framing the door, at each side, is a white-painted wooden post, above which seem to be the remnants of a cardboard lintel or porch. The roof, in two separate sections, is painted black. The sails are made from two narrow, flat pieces of wood joined through their centres by a nail which continues into a short length of dowelling projecting from the front of the windmill. The sails are each shaped similarly to an old-fashioned 'cut-throat razor', ie something like an elongated back-to-front 'S'. The sails are painted white with a black line along one edge and yellow at the centres. The details are picked out with pencil lines.