Rotadraw
Rotadraw
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plastic
Measurements
150 mm (diameter)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662263
Summary
Twelve circular discs, drawing aids, made from plastic. Six are yellow in colour, six are green in colour, each disc has numbers marked on its circumference, and these numbers are repeated on lines of various shapes that are cut into the circle. You pinned a piece of paper on a surface which you could put a pin in such as a piece of cardboard and then placed the disk on top in the centre of which was a pin hole so you could pin it to the paper so it did not slip. You then placed a mark on the paper at the outer edge of the disk and lined up the no:1 on the outer edge to the mark next filling in the corresponding line or shape with a pen. Next of course you needed to turn the disc to line up no:2 to the mark on the paper which you had made and then filled in the no:2 corresponding line or shape. You proceeded like this until all numbers on the disk outer edge and their corresponding line or shape was completed. Each stencil will complete an outline of a donkey, tortoise and so on. Total number of items is 12.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Annette Clulow in May 2005.
Marks and inscriptions
On disc: Numbers 1-6 On each disc: ROTADRAW/PATENT PENDING
Makers and roles
Rotadraw , maker