Mechanical Figure

Object/Artifact

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Sidney Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Mechanical Figure

Entry/Object ID

2014.003.003

Description

1950’s tin toy. Smoking grandpa in rocking chair. Seven inches tall, hollow metal grandpa. Balding with white hair and moustache. Grey hair on chest and hands. Red nose of a different [unknown] material [possibly rubber]. Holding pipe which would have been raised to mouth, and lit up with small red light bulb in bowl of pipe. Wearing fabric red plaid shirt, blue denim overalls with yellow felt buttons, and large red metal “clown shoes” with “SAN/ made in Japan” written in white on sole of grandpa’s right shoe. Would have rocked back and forth in metal rocking chair made to look wooden. Battery operated.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Gray Lorenzen, Gloria

Notes

Accession Date: 19-Jun-14 Mode of Acquisition: Gift

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

figure, mechanical figure

Created By

Brunckhurst, Elise

Create Date

July 21, 2014

Updated By

[email protected]

Update Date

May 16, 2025