Rocking animal
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and metal
Measurements
198 mm (width); 490 mm (height); 650 mm (length)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661630
Summary
A wooden rocking cockerel sit-on toy. It consists of a rectangular wooden base with two vertical pieces painted yellow, at the top of which is a pivoting smaller rectangular piece. This has a shaped piece at one end that is flat but shaped as a bicycle seat, and a two-dimensional cockerel's head in the centre, above the pivot, which has a handle bar at either side. The head is painted black, white, red and yellow. There is a metal spring joining the front pieces (top and bottom) together which is quite rusty. Item was hand made by donor's grandfather.
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of upper rectangular piece: XMAS/ 1943/ FOR JOHN/ BY HIS GRANDAD.