Constructional toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and paper.
Measurements
Sticks (min) - 36 mm (length); 12 mm (diameter), Sticks (max) - 263 mm (length); 12 mm (diameter), Long rectangles - 130 mm (length); 20 mm (width); 9 mm (height), Cubes - 43 mm (length); 43 mm (width); 43 mm (height), Wheels - 18 mm (height); 90 mm (diameter), Leaflet - 145 mm (width)
Place of origin
Nordsjaelland
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661886
Summary
A construction set labelled on its accompanying leaflet as 'Architect Fangel's Connector Building Set - educationally the right toy!'. It consists of many wooden pieces in various shapes. The sticks have slots cut at the end for ease of insertion, the other shapes have one or more holes bored through them (either all or part of the way). There are: five cubes (with 6, 10 or 14 holes); one half-cube (with 1 hole); three wheels (with 9 or 13 holes); three long rectangular pieces (labelled on leaflet as 'links' each having a hole near each end); and forty dowelling 'sticks' (in 6 lengths: 3 long, 10 slightly shorter, 10 shorter, 8 shorter, 8 shorter still and 1 very short). The accompanying leaflet introduces the range of Connector sets, listing the contents of each and featuring black and white photographs of children using the sets. The leaflet is nearly torn in half at the fold. Total number of items is 53.