Skipping rope
Chad Valley
Category
Toys
Date
circa 2007
Materials
Plastic
Measurements
2270 mm (length); 28 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Marylebone Road, 242-246
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663043
Summary
A child's skipping rope made from plastic, described on the original packaging (now discarded) as a 'Sparkle Jump Rope'. The handles are made from opaque pale pink plastic and swivel around the 'rope' which consists of a narrow tube of flexible clear plastic. This ends inside the handles with plugs of brown plastic. Inside the tube is a length of pink and silver-coloured sparkly 'pipe cleaner' (metal wire with threads inserted as a fringe along its length).
Provenance
Purchased for the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Sue J. Fraser (Collections Assistant) in July 2007.
Makers and roles
Chad Valley, maker