Titre et auteur:

The novelty play house : the house that Jack built.

Publication:

[between 1870 and 1880] ([Springfield, Vt. : Joel Ellis])

Description:

1 building set : chiefly painted wood, with glass and metal ; various sizes in hinged-lid wooden box 29 x 29 x 10 cm

Notes:
Set comprises: painted wooden strips with lines grooved to resemble brick or stone and with ends notched for assembly and stability; door and window frames, with wooden door and glass windows; pieces to form base; pieces to form a concave mansard roof with 2 chimneys.
Title from printed (lithograph) label mounted on recto of lid. Illustration on label signed: Treadwell. Imprint from collector's file.
Library copy: in ms., on lid of box: Oliver B. Sp---[name illegible] Christmas 1881.

Expositions:

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: "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.

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Sujet:

Ellis, Britton & Eaton.
Ellis, Britton and Eaton
Blocks (Toys) United States Specimens.
Wooden toys United States Specimens.
Toys United States Specimens.
Cubes (Pièces de jeu) États-Unis Spécimens.
Jouets en bois États-Unis Spécimens.
Jouets États-Unis Spécimens.
Blocks (Toys)
Toys.
Wooden toys.
United States.

Classification/genre:

Notched-strip assembly system toys.
Specimens.

Vedettes secondaires:

Treadwell.
Ellis, Britton & Eaton.
Ellis, Britton and Eaton

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main jouets et jeux 61095
Cote: TS2301.T7.W6 E444 1870
Statut: Disponible