Card
Playskool
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1979
Materials
paper
Measurements
103 mm (Height) x 55 mm (Width) ; 1 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
Hong Kong
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671986.3.1
Summary
One of six Major Morgan cards which can be slotted into the body of the toy. The card has a code to follow along the top section with matching symbols or colours for the main section. If the symbols are pressed in the order presented by the code, they should produce one of the ten tunes on the double sided cards; this card has Mary Had a Little Lamb on one side and This Old Man on the other. The nursery rhyme would be recognized by children, and so the concept of rhythm is not represented by the toy, but would be played according to the child's knowledge of the song. One card features the actual letters of the musical notes played and one card is blank for a child to create their own tune.
Provenance
Gift from Lin and Roger Tomlinson in 2016, bought in c1985 for the donors' daughter Victoria when aged 7.
Makers and roles
Playskool, manufacturer