Wooden toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
73 mm (Height); 139 mm (Length); 18 mm (Width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672302
Summary
A homemade, light brown, wooden animal in the shape of a pig with its nose pointing upward and a hole drilled through to create an eye. Part of a collection of homemade wooden toy animals.
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.