Noah's Ark animal
Category
Toys
Date
1850 - 1880
Materials
Painted wood
Measurements
33 mm (min. length); 107 mm (max. length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 663929.2.2
Summary
Part of a set of forty-nine animals and five broken off animal pieces. (34.) One ostrich/emu with an oval body, thick tail, long black legs with one toe missing. (35.) One peahen with grey and red flecked body, red crest, fan tail, long grey legs. one leg replaced, beak missing. (36.) One hen and one cockerel speckled orange, green, red and black, each have long bodies and crested tails, neither have legs. (37.) Two black birds with four white bars on wing tips. One has a grey stomach, neither have legs. (38.) Two grey birds with blue wings and caps, they have four white bars on their wings and no legs. (39.) Two grey birds with orange wings and tail and no legs. (40.) Two ducks, one pale grey with an orange beak, the other pale orange with a black beak. They have no legs. (41.) One pale grey dove with black flecks and no legs. (42.) One bird with a pink back and grey underside. Its black tail has a red line and yellow dots, it has no legs. (43.) One pale grey wood pigeon with mauve wings and cap, yellow legs; toes missing. (44.) One large black bird with red eyes and a crest. Duck shaped, it has a long beak and no legs. (45.) One blackbird with yellow beak and eyes, broken tail and no legs. (46.) One magpie black and grey with some paint loss, forked tail, four bars on wings. (47.) One small shiny chicken, white, red and black flecked with no legs. (48.) There are also five pieces of grey legs which are possibly not original to the animals and birds listed above, some may be loose replacements.