Mosaic toy
Thomas Hope Ltd
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, wood and paper
Measurements
Box - 168 mm (length); 110 mm (width); 20 mm (height), Each piece of mosaic (min) - 18 mm (length); 4 mm (width); 18 mm (diameter), Each piece of mosaic (max) - 69 mm (length); 23 mm (width); 34 mm (diameter), Cardboard strip - 43 mm (length); 14 mm (width), Corrugated cardboard - 160 mm (length); 106 mm (width)
Place of origin
Manchester
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668275
Summary
An orange cardboard box with a paper label pasted onto the lid. Printed on the label in black ink is the name 'The "Brightway" Figure Mosaics, An interesting constructive occupation.' Below the title is a black and white illustration of 'Noddy' like people and birds built out of the blocks. To the right are the instructions in how to play. At the bottom is the manufacturer's details. The box contains twenty-nine polished and painted wooden shapes which can be slotted together. These are coloured orange, green, red, yellow, black, blue, grey and pink. The round pink piece has a face. The shapes are rectangles, triangles, circles, squares, semi-circles, and 'n' shaped. Some of them have grooves cut into them. The box also contains a rectangular broken off piece of blue cardboard and a piece of corrugated cardboard. The lid of the box states that there are three design sheets included but none of these are present. Total number of items is 33.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr and Mrs Gammons in February 1994.
Marks and inscriptions
On the bottom of of the paper label on the lid: 'THOMAS HOPE, LTD., Kindergarten Specialists, Manchester, 1.' On the bottom of the box: 'foreign'
Makers and roles
Thomas Hope Ltd, maker