Skaymo bricks. 2 : build real scale models.

Title & Author:

Skaymo bricks. 2 : build real scale models.

Publication:

[approximately 1935] (Altrincham, England : Skaymo Toys Ltd.)

Description:

1 set of building blocks (51 pieces) : wood, some stained, painted ; various sizes in cardboard box 6 x 20 x 26 cm + 1 instruction booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 25 cm)

Notes:
Title from box.
Set includes packing plan mounted on verso of box cover, imprinted "Skaymo copyright" and "P.H.C. '32". Instruction booklet is "plan book no. 4."

Exhibitions:

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

Summary:

Located in Altrincham, Cheshire, the manufacturer of Skaymo Bricks specialized in wooden building sets, some complete with glass windows and silver cupolas. This set, of which the cover illustration has a decidedly 1930s flavour, includes elements for creating both modern and traditional structures: for the modern, simple blocks, rectangles and wedges, a few curved pieces, a green "door" piece with vertical grooves; for the more traditional, two pairs of columns. According to the manufacturer, the set is "specially designed by an architect to build real scale models of buildings."

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Subject:

Wooden toys England Specimens.
Blocks (Toys) England Specimens.
Toys England Specimens.
Jouets en bois Angleterre Spécimens.
Cubes (Pièces de jeu) Angleterre Spécimens.
Jouets Angleterre Spécimens.
Blocks (Toys)
Toys.
Wooden toys.
England.

Form/genre:

Stacking assembly system toys.
Specimens.

Added entries:

Skaymo Toys Ltd.

Holdings:

Location: Library main objects 77439
Call No.: TS2301.T7.W6 S53 1935
Status: Available

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