Lady Ferguson Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 (edited) These arrived from an auction house today. I'm hoping David will be able to shed some light on their history: Edited July 23, 2012 by Lady Ferguson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_scrivener Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Farmyard photo #1: I don't know Cottage photo #2: I have several made by the same company, which I'm fairly sure was Peacock & Co @ 2 Prebend Street, Islington until 1931, when moved to 175-179 St John's Street. Taken over by Chad Valley in 1934, but continued to use Peacock name for some ranges until 1970. The farm buildings were a tiny part of their range of toys. They're probably best known for jigsaw puzzles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Ferguson Posted July 26, 2012 Author Share Posted July 26, 2012 Farmyard photo #1: I don't know Cottage photo #2: I have several made by the same company, which I'm fairly sure was Peacock & Co @ 2 Prebend Street, Islington until 1931, when moved to 175-179 St John's Street. Taken over by Chad Valley in 1934, but continued to use Peacock name for some ranges until 1970. The farm buildings were a tiny part of their range of toys. They're probably best known for jigsaw puzzles. Brilliant! Thanks David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_scrivener Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Looking through my files of toy buildings, I've found one of the farmyards in the top photo (slight colour differences, but otherwise identical). Vectis auction 21 March 2012 Lot 597 http://www.vectis.co.uk/Page/ViewLot.aspx?LotId=443859 The people at Vectis don't know who made it either, giving their usual description of such things, "Unconfirmed Maker similar to Hugar" (It isn't Hugar) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Ferguson Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Thanks David. Well at least I now know it's not a scratch-build and evidently someone was producing them at some point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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