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Farm Set,

Crescent Toy Co. (Manufacturer)

Crescent Number 2703, Farm set in lidded box covered with Crescent Toys paper. Items fixed with string to yellow card. Includes: orange tractor (No 1805) with silver exhaust, air cleaner and grille, brown seat and black all rubber wheels. Woman's Land Army Girl driver. Animals: one recumbent cow with calf, two sheep recumbent, two pigs in different sizes, two geese (one flying), two dogs, one green trough. Figurines: man with blue dungarees and yellow hat using a spade, man with blue trousers,white shirt and brown hat holding a hay fork, man in brown clothing and boots and dark brown hat using a wheelbarrow. By Crescent Toys Co. from a large collection of British manufactured toy farm vehicles and implements. Numbering: 1) Box lid, 2) Box main, 3) Tractor, 4) WLA Driver, 5) Cow, 6) Calf, 7) Sheep (2), 8) Pigs (2), 9) Geese (2), 10) Dogs (2) 11) Trough, 12) Man with spade, 13) Man with hayfork, 14) Man with wheelbarrow, 15) Wheelbarrow

Numbering: 1) Box lid, 2) Box main, 3) Tractor, 4) WLA Driver, 5) Cow, 6) Calf, 7) Sheep (2), 8) Pigs (2), 9) Geese (2), 10) Dogs (2) 11) Trough, 12) Man with spade, 13) Man with hayfork, 14) Man with wheelbarrow, 15) Wheelbarrow

Museum Object Entry Form – 'Description of Object/Collection: Large collection of farm toys (to be listed in more detail on a separate sheet)...', Citation in publication [Newson, R., P. Wade-Martins and A. Little, 'Farming in Miniature Volume 1' Old Pond, 2013] (not in book but online)

Great Britain

1956 - 1957

, Metal