Paper toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper and cardboard
Measurements
Box - 216 mm (length); 173 mm (width); 27 mm (height), Each figure (min) - 38 mm (length); 20 mm (height), Each figure (max) - 189 mm (length); 129 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663909
Summary
A set of paper cut-out figures mounted on wooden bases, packed in a cardboard box with a separate lid bearing a coloured picture of a chalet-type farm building with animals and children. The set comprises a farm building like that on the lid, a woman washing clothes at a well, a man leaning on his staff with a black dog, a girl feeding pigeons, a woman carrying a basket on her head, a scene with two sheep drinking from a trough by a well while a woman carries a wooden bucket on her head, a barefoot boy and girl with a lamb, a woman with a sickle carrying a bundle on her head, a horse and foal, a brown dog outside its kennel, two goats and a kid, a pig, a cow and calf, a donkey and foal, two sheep and a lamb, three ducks swimming, a cock and three hens, and a wheelbarrow full of grass. Total number of items is 20.
Marks and inscriptions
On the lid: 'Farm. Meierhof. Metairie.'