Tin Toy: Museum Object and Cultural History
Tin Toy: date made: 1862. Object Name: Two-Horse Carriage. Object Name: carriage, horse-drawn, toy.
The object in the museum catalogue
This jaunty horse-drawn carriage was presented to a little girl in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. When wound with a key, a clockwork mechanism inside the toy turns the back wheels and sends the carriage on its way. The Connecticut manufacturer, George W. Brown & Co., was famous for producing a variety of windup tin toys during the mid-1800s.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1862
- Object Name: Two-Horse Carriage
- Object Name: carriage, horse-drawn, toy
- Object Type: toys
- Other Terms: Two-Horse Carriage; Toys
- Physical Description: iron, tinned sheet (overall material)
- Physical Description: paint (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 5 1/4 in x 14 in x 2 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 35.56 cm x 5.715 cm
- place made: United States: Connecticut, Bristol
- place owned; place used: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Subject: Toys
- Subject: Children
- Subject: Family
- Subject: Gifts & Presents
- Subject: Carriages
- Subject: Horses
- ID Number: DL.65.0013
- catalog number: 65.0013
- accession number: 254853
- Credit Line: Millicent Todd Bingham
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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