Wooden toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
56 mm (Height);122 mm (Length); 21 mm (Width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672300
Summary
A homemade, dark brown, wooden animal in the shape of a hippopotamus with its head pointing down. Part of a collection of homemade wooden toy animals. Th template for the hippopotamus is in inventory, 672327.
Provenance
Part of a large collection of handmade toys and puzzles donated to the Museum of Childhood in 2019 by Nigel Briggs. They were made by John Doble, father of the donor's wife Hanne. He had worked with Nancy Catford (of the Nursery Schools Association), the designer of the toys, during the Second World War. Together they produced paper patterns that people could use at home as templates for thin ply patterns which could in turn be used to make their own wooden toys. Other toys were made from dowels and empty cotton reels.