Cassette player
Fisher-Price Toys
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
circa 1988
Materials
Plastic
Measurements
200 x 177 x 81 mm
Place of origin
East Aurora
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671927
Summary
A Fisher-Price cassette player. Intended for use by children it plays standard music and story cassettes but is very robust, with large controls and buttons.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Richard Frankham in July 2016. Bought for his third birthday in 1988, later used by his mother at a nursery and later still played with by his mother's great niece and her cousins.
Marks and inscriptions
On base of player: 826 c1980 FISHER-PRICE TOYS DIVISION OF THE QUAKER OATS CO. EAST AURORA, N. Y. ASSEMBLED IN MEXICO PAT PENDING
Makers and roles
Fisher-Price Toys , manufacturer