Wood
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stained wood
Measurements
Length 51mm x Width 25mm x 10mm Depth (smallest)76mm Length x 25mm Width x 12mm Depth (largest)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672345
Summary
A bag of painted blocks, various shapes in green, yellow and red wood stain.
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.