Bellows Toy

Item Information

Title:
Bellows Toy
Description:
A rectangular top with a full bodied figure of a swimming duck behind two smaller figures of swimming ducks over white leather bellows and a wooden base. The ducks are painted black, green, white, yellow and red. Bellows were intended to flap wings which are now missing.
Date:
1850–1890
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
leather
painting (coating)
papier mâché
pine (wood)
mechanical toys
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Papier Mache
Pine
Leather
Painted
Duck
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
3 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. x 2 1/8 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/11124
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1992.457
Identifier:
11124