Steam toy
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1915
Materials
Tin plate
Measurements
105 mm (length); 63 mm (width); 98 mm (height)
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 665156
Summary
A tin plate model sawyer (circa 1915) wearing printed or painted brown trousers, a white shirt and a blue apron. He has jointed arms and his right hand rests on one end of the saw. His left hand rests on a trestle table supporting a metal log. A power take off wheel (fly wheel), linked to a horizontal metal rod slotted through part of the saw, moves it backwards and forwards over the top of the log. The whole rests on a rectangular grey metal base.