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section 3: farm buildings & animals and misc. buildings, 1880s to 1920s images & photography: Jennifer McKendry © home page GALLERY of IMAGES 1 GALLERY OF IMAGES 2 GALLERY OF IMAGES 4 GALLERY OF IMAGES 5 GALLERY OF IMAGES 6 GALLERY_OF_IMAGES_7 INDEX of GALLERY
Warehouse, probably German, lithographed brick walls and roof tiles over wood, 14" high, c1900
1905 "Modern Warehouse" in the Wiemann & Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1897 F.A.O. Schwarz catalogue, New York, likely made in Germany
Stable, likely German c1900, almost 12" high, with housing for farm workers in the upper level; iron wagon and wheelbarrow; painted composition horses (one retaining its original felt blanket and leather girdle), 4½" long; painted tin canoe (leaning at right)
Horses in painted composition (papier mâché) with wood legs, foal marked Germany, brown mare 5" high, c1915-20; dolls marked Germany in original clothing c1930; painted metal pump, 5" high, c1915
1914 horse and cow, papier mâché, imported [from Germany], free-standing; Butler Brothers catalogue
c1910 cattle and donkey, painted composition with wooden legs, steer 4½" long and marked Germany
Flock of sheep, likely German, ram 3" high, early 20th century
1905 Weimann & Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1914 ad by Butler Brothers
1905 blue-roof stable by the German maker Gottschalk ,model # 3256, ad in the Wanamaker catalogue, USA
Stable, 11½" high, with hinged upper door and metal hay crib; similar to model 5544 by the Moritz Gottschalk toy factory of Germany
1911 Bliss stable with horses on wheeled platforms and a wagon; the upper fronts have a half timber design printed on paper glued to wood, as in the stable shown below
A painted metal wagon pulled by a pair of black horses and directed by a driver, shaft marked "MADE IN U.S.A.", attached is a hand-written note "bought by Dad in 1944" (but similar to examples made much earlier), overall length 11"; an outhouse ("World's Smallest Library") dated 1938
Painted papier mâché horse, 4" high, with original harness and chains, on platform with wheels, likely German and meant to pull a wagon
1894 Montgomery Ward catalogue showing a papier mâché German horse on a platform with wheels, some are independant with saddles while others are meant to pull wagons
Pair of horses, covered with imitation horse-hair, and retaining their original tails, manes and glass eyes, as well as (imitation) leather and metal harnesses, 5" long, likely German in origin; metal and celluloid lantern, just under 1½" high, by the American firm Tootsietoy c1930s
1921 covered horses on platforms with wheels, Sears Roebuck catalogue
1838 the tradition of playing with animals on wheeled platforms and horse stables has spanned a long time in Germany; note also the toy soldiers and doll (detail from 1838 painting by Wilheim von Harnier)
one of the smallest and plainest of the Red Robin Farm buildings by the American manufacturer Converse; 6½" high, early 20th century
1914 Roosevelt Stock Farm by Converse of Massachusetts, Marshall Field catalogue; the main doorway is arched ; the colours and patterns are printed directly on the wood; some models have a roof ventilator, sliding doors and porthole openings on the back wall to ventilate the horse stalls; note the animals cut out of thin pieces of wood supported on wood bases
1922 Red Robin stock farm by Converse, Sear Roebuck catalogue
1905 four stables in the Wiemann & Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; lithographed paper over wood; below: two are Bliss examples made in Rhode Island
1893 Carl Stirn of New York catalogue, stable probably imported from Germany (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s); its simple lines contrasts with the example below
above: 1893 Carl Stirn of New York catalogue, stable probably imported from Germany (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s) and likely a product of the Gottschalk firm; "a finer stable", it came with a wonderful array of accessories including the coachman with his whip; also shown in the 1897 F.A.O Schwarz catalogue, New York
1905 open stable, the pair of horses with their plebian farm wagon must have been envious of the racing horse pulling a sulky portrayed in the picture over their heads; ad in the Wanamaker catalogue, USA
above & right: Open stable made by Christian Hacker, Nuremberg, Germany, working from the mid 19th century to 1914; marked on the bottom with a printed paper label showing CH entwined below a crown; exterior walls covered with brick paper, interior painted green, black and white "tile" floor; stalls for 3 horses and wider space for a wagon
below: Tiny farm buildings made of thin wood in Germany, hand-painted with carved trees, animals and people, sometimes described as putz but the latter is associated with Christmas ornament and these were farms to play with year-round; the house is 4 inches wide; the painted lines represent traditional half-timber construction; the doorway surround is elaborate and easier to see in the drawing below of a farm, displayed in an oval wooden box and composed of a house, two outbuildings, fence, four trees, farm woman and a dozen animals from the Carl Stirn catalgue, New York, 1893; the scale was usually inconsistent; the original prices were inexpensive
above: 1893
1914 Marshall Fields catalogue
the people and animals tower over the buildings
The painted wood farm building (the lean-to roof is 11 inches long) has a room for housing the farmer or his workers (indicated by the chimney, tiled floor and window), as well as an open shelter for animals; while all the animals are simple in their forms, some are more detailed, for example certain sheep have three-dimensional ears; the well is painted metal; the woman at the well is painted wood, hinged at the shoulders and hips and with a skirt made from real fabric ; she is 1½ inches high; the all-wood woman on the left has long painted braids; the wagon, made in France, is painted metal; the farm is displayed on a modern wood tray, painted to represent the surface of a barn yard; tacky wax helps support the individual pieces
1897 F.A.O. Schwarz catalogue, New York, "wooden box toys", farms $1 to $3
Pond with painted metal fowl, cats and dogs; made in England, France and Germany; early 20th century (modern trees)
Metal swan, 1¼" high, marked ""FRANCE DEPOSE [registered] B.F." with cygnet riding on its back; floating duck marked "FRANCE"; exotic bird (on right) marked "MADE IN FRANCE"
1895 right Butler Brothers, tin stable with horse and cab below tin cab, painted green, 3¾ in. high
Painted composition horse with original leather harness and reins (replaced mane, tail and saddle), likely German c1910, 4¾" high; metal dogs c1920s; composition doll in felt clothes c1920s; American cast-iron benches c1870; in the background, McLoughlin's garden house c1910, New York
1914 celluloid (thin, brittle, moulded early form of plastic) horse, Marshall Field catalogue
c1914 cast iron horse, made as a bank, given to a boy born in Ontario in 1919
1996 Canadian hand-painted and hand-carved wood horse wearing vintage blanket, saddle and harness
Pig barn home-made in Quebec, Canada, with removable roof, smaller scale than usual, 6½" high, typical painted pattern on the doors of farm buildings in French Canada, date unknown, possibly 1930s (accessories manufactured recently)
Farm outbuilding with lean-to roof, home-made in south-eastern Ontario, Canada, probably based on an existing farm, 13" long, date unknown, possibly 1940s; stump and axe carved in Quebec; model of a well, found in Ontario, c1900; painted metal goat (3½" high) and composition-wood dog, probably made in Germany
1905 Wiemann &Muench catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; both fire stations are by the American Bliss firm
1893 Carl Stirn catalogue, New York, perhaps a German import (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s)
1905 butcher shop attributed to Gottschalk, ad in the Wanamaker catalogue, USA
1902 grocery shop made by Gottschalk # 3510 (see below), ad in the 1905 Wanamaker catalogue, USA
1893 Carl Stirn catalogue, New York, likely a German import (although Stirn & Lyon also made toys in the 1870s and '80s) possibly Gottschalk; also shown in the 1897 F.A.O. Schwarz catalogue, New York
1908 postcard showing a general store, perhaps by Gottschalk
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11908-1909 Nerlich & Co. catalogue,
Toronto, Canada, black painted iron horse pulling a steel cart, overall length 6½"
