Butcher's Shop model
This is a polychrome painted wooden model of a butcher's shop in a glazed box. The figures of the butcher and his boy stand outside the shop surrounded by joints of meat. Two trees made of grasses are ...
Butcher's Shop model - detail of boy
This is a polychrome painted wooden model of a butcher's shop in a glazed box. The figures of the butcher and his boy stand outside the shop surrounded by joints of meat. Two trees made of grasses are ...
Butcher's Shop model - detail of butcher
Polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop, the meat displayed hanging outside the shop with the figures of the butcher and his boy. Two trees made of grasses stand either side of the house. In a glazed ...
Carousel Pig
This is a cast iron carousel pig with a piebald hide. It was modelled running and then mounted onto its stand at a later date. This may have been one of a number of farm animals on a steam-driven fairground ...
Carousel Pig - detail of front
This is a cast iron carousel pig with a piebald hide. It was modelled running and then mounted onto its stand at a later date. This may have been one of a number of farm animals on a steam-driven fairground ...
Carousel Pig - detail top of head
This is a cast iron carousel pig with a piebald hide. It was modelled running and then mounted onto its stand at a later date. This may have been one of a number of farm animals on a steam-driven fairground ...
Child's Wheelbarrow
This is a child's painted wheelbarrow which has a red background with cream lozenge shapes on the sides and a heart shape on the front.
The stanctions (legs), base and wheel are later replacements, ...
Lifeboat model
This is a polychrome painted wooden model of a lifeboat in a glass display case. There is a painted backdrop of a seascape, and the lifeboat is on a carriage with its sails set.
This is English and ...
Lifeboat model - detail of interior
Polychrome wood model of a lifeboat with sails set, on a carriage, within a glazed display case. A painted seascape backdrop.
Height 465mm, Width 610mm, Depth 310mm
Early 20th century. England.
Lifeboat model - detail of wheel
Polychrome wood model of a lifeboat with sails set, on a carriage, within a glazed display case. A painted seascape backdrop.
Height 465mm, Width 610mm, Depth 310mm
Early 20th century. England.
Potter's Workshop model
This is an automaton (moving) model of a potter's workshop in an angled case with a glass front. Two men are in the workshop and both move when operated by a key from the back.
When the key is turned, ...
Potter's Workshop model - detail of figure
Automaton model of a potter's workshop. Two men are in the workshop, and both move when operate by turnkey from the reverse.
The flywheel turned by the man on the right drives the potter's wheel. The ...
Potter's Workshop model - detail of model
Automaton model of a potter's workshop. Two men are in the workshop, and both move when operate by turnkey from the reverse.
The flywheel turned by the man on the right drives the potter's wheel. The ...
Pull-along Bull toy
This is a child's pull-along toy of a bull on a four-wheeled base. It is made from polychrome painted wood and metal, and the bull's hide is painted in liver and white dapples.
Toys that moved, especially ...