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Model Farm,

Crescent Toy Co. (Manufacturer)

Crescent Number 9200, Model Farm in large red lidded box with illustration of a farm scene. Includes: orange tractor with silver exhaust, air cleaner and grille, brown seat and grey/green all rubber wheels. Yellow hay rake (repainted?) and brown seat, all grey/green rubber wheels (as tractor). Red tipped lever lost. Yellow harrow (repainted?) with four sets of six grey/green rubber discs. Single axle animal trailer with light blue chassis and sprung loaded tipping platform, red sides, yellow stake sides and ramps. Sides don't fit the platform. Green chicken coop with brown hinged hatch. Animals: Two shire horses, working horse, grazing brown horse, black horse, brown foal, two cows (brown and black), calf brown, calf recumbent, two sheep recumbent, lamb, three pigs in different sizes, billy goat, two chickens and a cockrel, three geese (two flying), dog, three troughs, two sections of hedge. Figurines: two Woman's Land Army girls seated, man with blue dungarees and yellow hat using a spade, man with blue trousers,white shirt and brown hat holding a hay fork, man with blue dungarees and yellow hat emptying a bucket, man in brown clothing and boots and dark brown hat using with blue wheelbarrow, female in grey trousers and red shirt carrying a bucket and a female in a green dress carrying a basket with produce. There is a copy from a catalogue in the box which shows the original contents. This is not similar to this set. 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) Hay Rake, 5) Harrow, 6) Trailer (7), 7) Chicken coop, 8) Shire Horses (2), 9) Working Horse,10) Horses smaller (2), 11) Foal, 12) Cows (2), 13) Calf (2), 14) Sheep (2), 15) Lamb, 16) Pigs (3), 17) Goat, 18) Chickens (3), 19) Geese (3), 20) Dog, 21) Troughs (3), 22) Hedge sections (2), 23) WLA girls (2), 24) Man with spade, 25) Man with hayfork, 26) Man with bucket, 27) Man with wheelbarrow, 28) Female with bucket, 29) Female with basket, 30) Wheelbarrow

Numbering: 1) Box lid, 2) Box main, 3) Tractor, 4) Hay Rake, 5) Harrow, 6) Trailer (7), 7) Chicken coop, 8) Shire Horses (2), 9) Working Horse,10) Horses smaller (2), 11) Foal, 12) Cows (2), 13) Calf (2), 14) Sheep (2), 15) Lamb, 16) Pigs (3), 17) Goat, 18) Chickens (3), 19) Geese (3), 20) Dog, 21) Troughs (3), 22) Hedge sections (2), 23) WLA girls (2), 24) Man with spade, 25) Man with hayfork, 26) Man with bucket, 27) Man with wheelbarrow, 28) Female with bucket, 29) Female with basket, 30) 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] (page 317 / image 70 & 71)

Great Britain

1954 - 1960

, Metal