Assemblo : le vrai jouet qui développe sans fatigue l'imagination des enfants et leur goût scientifique.

Title & Author:

Assemblo : le vrai jouet qui développe sans fatigue l'imagination des enfants et leur goût scientifique.

Publication:

[approximately 1933] ([France : publisher not identified])

Description:

1 construction set : painted metal ; various sizes in cardboard box 3 x 32 x 28 cm + 1 instruction booklet (14 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm)

Notes:
Title from box cover.
"Breveté S.G.D.G. France et étranger modèles et marques déposés."
Stamped on casing inside box: Boite 1.
"Quelques modèles (extraits de l'Album Général) réalisés avec les plaques ASSEMBLO sans vis - sans écrous"--Instruction booklet, page 1 of cover.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "Les jouets et la tradition moderniste = Toys and the modernist tradition", Centre canadien d'architecture, Dec. 15, 1993-May 1, 1994.
Exhibited: "Les jouets et la tradition moderniste = Toys and the modernist tradition", Centre canadien d'architecture, Dec. 15, 1993-May 1, 1994.

Summary:

Assemblo, its manufacturer not identified, is apart from packaging and language identical to its American counterpart "Stanlo", manufactured during the Depression in New Britain, Connecticut by the Stanley Tool Company. Heavy and difficult to assemble, the toy responds to changing ideas in architecture chiefly in its cover graphic. With its large triangular, square and rectangular pieces and hinged joints, the toy permits construction of a multiplicity of structures, but none which could bear much resemblance to the skyscraper which rises up on the right-hand side of the ill

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Subject:

Metal toys France Specimens.
Toys France Specimens.
Jouets en métal France Spécimens.
Jouets France Spécimens.
Metal toys
Toys
France

Form/genre:

Loose-pin hinge assembly system toys.
Specimens

Holdings:

Location: Library main jouets et jeux 60967
Call No.: TS2301.T7.M4 Z9 1933
Status: Available

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