Toy Car: Museum Object and Cultural History
Toy Car: Date made: 1984. Object Name: Toy Car. Object Name: Delrin Toy Car.
The object in the museum catalogue
Orange and black toy Porsche with some parts made of Delrin, a durable DuPont plastic, and produced by Schaper Toys in Robbinsdale, Mn. William Herbert Schaper was a postman who in 1949, having developed the game “Cooties”, formed the W. H. Schaper Mfg. Co. in Robbinsdale, Mn. In time, the firm became known as Schaper Toys.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1984
- Object Name: Toy Car
- Object Name: Delrin Toy Car
- Measurements: overall: 102 mm x 48 mm x 51 mm; 4 in x 1 7/8 in x 2 in
- Measurements: overall: car: 2 1/4 in x 4 in x 2 in; 5.715 cm x 10.16 cm x 5.08 cm
- Measurements: overall: packaging: 6 in x 7 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 19.05 cm
- ID Number: 1985.0281.09
- catalog number: 1985.0281.09
- accession number: 1985.0281
- Credit Line: Gift of R. N. MacDonald
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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