Steam toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Tinplate
Measurements
103 mm (length); 63 mm (width); 110 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665154
Summary
A model scissor grinder consisting of a tin plate man wearing printed or painted brown trousers, a blue shirt, a cream-yellow apron, goggles and a cap. He has jointed arms and stands behind a tin plate wood imitation table with a slot in the centre which holds a carborundum grindstone wheel which revolves on a horizontal rod driven by a power take off wheel (fly wheel). In his hands are a pair of tin plate scissors, the blade of which he holds against the grindstone wheel. The whole rests on a grey rectangular metal base.