Wooden box
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Painted wood
Measurements
425 mm (Height) x 482 mm (Length) x 292 mm (Width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672346.1
Summary
A homemade box, made from plywood panels held together with wooden edges, painted cream. It has a lid which is catalogued as 672346.2.
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.