Figure
Airfix Products Ltd
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
plastic
Measurements
50 mm (Height); 115 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671931
Summary
An Airfix plastic toy Weeble roly-poly shaped like an egg modeled as a school boy he wears a yellow cap holding a lollipop with a rotund body coloured pink and orange. "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down". Sent with a letter from Jan Chapman with best wishes in response to the "the wish list" being compiled for the Exploring Childhoods Project.
Provenance
A gift to the Museum of Childhood from Mrs. Jan Chapman in May 2016. Jan had him in her family when she was young which she played with. When she had her two daughters they inherited him to play with.
Makers and roles
Airfix Products Ltd, manufacturer