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Farm Set Panorama Series,

Charbens and Co. Ltd. (Manufacturer)

Charbens Number 329 Farm Set Panorama Series in illustrated lidded box. Including: Red plastic tractor with metal wheels (silver hub and blue tyres) and yellow steering wheel and driver. Horse drawn land roller, yellow metal frame with orange wooden roll and brown plastic horse. Green plastic reaper binder with yellow sails and wheels. All plastic figurines including: Blacksmith with anvil (hamer broken and lost), farm labourer with green pitchfork, female figurine with two milking pales and yellow dress with blue apron, male figurine in grey green suit, with blue waistcoat and black boots and top hat carrying a stick, a black bull, two black and white cows and a brown and white calf, brown horse, two sheep, two pigs, a cockrell, chicken and five chicks on green plinth, three wheatsheafs, a wall section with treestump, a fallen tree with branches, brown bridge and white fence sections. By Charbens from a large collection of British manufactured toy farm vehicles and implements. Numbering: 1) Box lid, 2) Box main, 3) Tractor, 4) Driver, 5) Landroller, 6) Horse, 7) Reaper binder, 8) Blacksmith, 9) Labourer with pitchfork, 10) Female with pales, 11) Farmer, 12) Bull, 13) Cows (2), 14) Calf, 15) Horse, 16) Sheep (2), 17) Pigs (2), 18) Cockrell, 19) Hen with chicks, 20) Wheatsheafs (3), 21) Wall, 22) Tree, 23) Bridge, 24) Fence sections (8)

Numbering: 1) Box lid, 2) Box main, 3) Tractor, 4) Driver, 5) Landroller, 6) Horse, 7) Reaper binder, 8) Blacksmith, 9) Labourer with pitchfork, 10) Female with pales, 11) Farmer, 12) Bull, 13) Cows (2), 14) Calf, 15) Horse, 16) Sheep (2), 17) Pigs (2), 18) Cockrell, 19) Hen with chicks, 20) Wheatsheafs (3), 21) Wall, 22) Tree, 23) Bridge, 24) Fence sections (8)

Museum Object Entry Form – 'Description of Object/Collection: Large collection of farm toys (to be listed in more detail on a separate sheet)...', Citation in publication [Newson, R., P. Wade-Martins and A. Little, 'Farming in Miniature Volume 1' Old Pond, 2013] (as page 246 and 247 / image 151 and 152)

Islington

1960 - 1974

Toy, Model

, Metal, Wood, Plastic