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Rocking Car (Schaukelwagen)

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Beech, birch plywood, rubber, metal
  • Place Manufactured: Ohrdruf, East Germany
  • DATES 1950
    DIMENSIONS 15 x 39 1/2 x 15 in. (38.1 x 100.3 x 38.1 cm)
    MARKINGS Seemingly unmarked
    ACCESSION NUMBER 2013.74.1
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Carson, Pirie and Scott Co., by exchange
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Multifunctional light bent beech and bent plywood child's rocking toy. Arch shaped wooden slatted toy with opening at center for child to climb into toy and sit on molded plywood seat; the whole on four red wooden wheels with slim black rubber tires. The toy can be used as a car or inverted to become a rocker.
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