Wooden toy
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
145 mm (height) x 65 mm (width) x 255 mm (Length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672343.1
Summary
Flat wooden mahogany coloured board with a chamfered edge with five inserted wooden dowels in a pine coloured wood of varying heights, onto which bobbin type counters are threaded, catalogued as 672343.2
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.