Title & Author:

Harbutt's plasticine builder : for the young architect & modeller.

Publication:

[approximately 1910] ([England : W. Harbutt])

Description:

1 building set : plasticine, wood or metal tools ; various sizes in cardboard box 20 x 29 x 5 cm + 13 design sheets ([13] leaves : color ; 15 x 18 cm)

Notes:
Design sheets issued in envelope.
Set includes 3 copies of brochure describing how to use Harbutt's plasticene and itemizing other Harbutt's products for sale.
Ill. on lid recto signed Chas. E. Dawson and printed by Adams Bros., Art Printers, London.
The Embossing Company, Albany, N.Y., general American agent for Harbutt's plasticine.
Library copy: incomplete: 6 pieces, plasticene wanting.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets = Dream houses, toy homes", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 8, 1995-Mar. 31, 1996.
Exhibited: "Toying with architecture: the building toy in the arena of play, 1800 to the present", Katonah Museum of Art., Sept. 28, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998.
Exhibited: "Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets = Dream houses, toy homes", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 8, 1995-Mar. 31, 1996.
Exhibited: "Toying with architecture: the building toy in the arena of play, 1800 to the present", Katonah Museum of Art., Sept. 28, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998.

Resources:
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Subject:

Plasticene toys England Specimens.
Toys England Specimens.
Jouets Angleterre Spécimens.
Toys.
England.

Form/genre:

Specimens.

Added entries:

Harbutt, W. (William), 1844-1921.
Dawson, Charles E.
Harbutt, William, 1844-1921
Embossing Company
Adams Bros.

Holdings:

Location: Library main jouets et jeux 77442
Call No.: TS2301.T7.P7 H38 1910
Status: Available