Cot mattress
Category
Childcare objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton and plastic
Measurements
810 mm (length); 362 mm (width); 85 mm (depth)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668561
Summary
A small foam mattress for a cot or carry-cot. It is covered with white ticking with blue stripes, which has been cut open at one end. Inside is a block of yellow plastic (polyurethane) foam. A layer of another type of white fibre plastic has been inserted between the foam and the ticking.