Construction toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, earthenware, metal and wood
Measurements
Box - 526 mm (length); 306 mm (width); 40 mm (depth), Each piece (min) - 13 mm (length); 13 mm (width), Each piece (max) - 455 mm (length); 296 mm (width)
Place of origin
Enfield
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670214
Summary
A construction toy in a white flat cardboard box with a separate red, green and white cardboard lid, containing Brickplayer kit 4, consisting of bricks and other building components which can be fixed together with mortar to make buildings. There are 466 bricks of different sizes, some stuck together, twelve blueprints, four roofs, nine roof fragments, nine ridges, three floors, four press-out components, eleven strips of wood, one dowel, two metal doors, two wooden doors, twenty three metal windows, and two cardboard trays to hold these. With the set are one triangular piece of wood, one small square of cardboard, one small piece of Formica, and one table knife. Total number of items is 555.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mr Howard Billam in November 1987.
Marks and inscriptions
On the lid: 'BRICKPLAYER KIT 4/ THE BRICKS AND MORTAR BUILDING KIT/ MANUFACTURED AT THE SE[]S WORKS, ENFIELD, MIDDX, ENGLAND'