Title & Author:

Ives Struktiron.

Publication:

[approximately 1913] (Bridgeport, Conn. : Ives Manufacturing Corporation)

Description:

2 construction sets : black-painted steel, metal hardware, cord ; in 2 cardboard boxes, 23 x 24 x 7 cm and 23 x 38 x? cm + 1 instruction manual (61, [3] pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm)

Notes:
Title and imprint from printed (chromolithograph) label mounted on lid of box [1]. The 3 structures depicted on the title label are listed in an earlier manual as Special no. 2, derrick; Special no. 10, signal; and F2, revolving steam shovel.
"Struktiron sets sell from $2.00 to $25.00"--Manual, p. 28
Library copy: Outfit DA (incomplete but including motor no. 262; pieces) and a large group of pieces from various unidentified sets to comprise, with the exception of a few pieces, the entire largest set, probably Outfit I.
Library copy: housed in 4 CCA-produced boxes, each with CCA-produced sheet illustrating packing placement of Struktiron parts.
In Related Ephemera: CCA-produced sheets (list of pieces, illustrated and numbered parts); photocopies of selected pages from the manual; sample brass screw purchased from Knapp Fasteners 08/90 to replace missing originals; CCA-produced photograph of p. 59 from manual.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "L'architecture en jeux: jeux de construction du CCA = Buildings in boxes: architectural toys from the CCA", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 27, 1990-Mar. 31, 1991.
Exhibited: "Villes en mouvement: jouets et transports = Cities in motion: toys and transport", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 15, 2000-Apr. 1, 2001.
Exhibited: "L'architecture en jeux: jeux de construction du CCA = Buildings in boxes: architectural toys from the CCA", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 27, 1990-Mar. 31, 1991.
Exhibited: "Villes en mouvement: jouets et transports = Cities in motion: toys and transport", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 15, 2000-Apr. 1, 2001.

Summary:

"Struktiron is a system of miniature structural steel parts with which ... anything which in real life is built of structural steel, can be accurately reproduced"--Manual, p. 28

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Subject:

Ives Manufacturing Corporation.
Metal toys United States Specimens.
Toys United States Specimens.
Jouets en métal États-Unis Spécimens.
Jouets États-Unis Spécimens.
Metal toys.
Toys.
United States.

Form/genre:

Screw-and-nut assembly system toys.
Specimens.

Added entries:

Ives Manufacturing Corporation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main jouets et jeux 61117
Call No.: TS2301.T7.M4 I93 1913
Status: Available