A Book of Vintage Designs and Instructions for Making Children's Toys and Models - Including a Toy Counter and Scales, a Child's Pedal Toy Motor Car, a Four Wheeled Toy Truck and a Model Garage

By Read Books Ltd.

This vintage volume is a detailed and fully-illustrated guide to designing and making children's toys. With a detailed introduction on model making and simple, step-by-step instructions, this book is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in hand-making children's toys. Contents include: “A Toy Counter and Scaled”, “A Miniature Ski-Ball”, “Alley”, “A Child's Play Desk”, “A Child's Pedal Toy Motor Car”, “A Novel Colour Spinning Top”, “A Children's Swing”, “A Model Garage”, “Fun With Miniature Bowls”, “A Four Wheeled Toy Truck”, “The Ranch”, “Our Toy Model Ranch”, “Our Toy Model Ranch Figures”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of toys.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Sep 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781473357457

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A TOY COUNTER AND SCALES

Everyone with a young sister or niece will welcome this little model. Easily made it forms a pleasing present and a lasting toy for any kiddie.

HERE is a first-rate little model toy counter that can be easily and cheaply made and that will give endless hours of amusement.

An easily worked wood such as satin walnut has been chosen for this, and a cheap parcel made up by Hobbies of planed stuff of the required thicknesses can be purchased for 1/4 from any Hobbies Branch, or will be sent post free for 1/10. The Parcel No. is T.M. 313.

Make the counter first. The perspective sketch of it gives an admirable idea of the finished thing, the detail Fig. 1 helps in the building up.

The top and floor are similar in size, while the front is 9ins. long by 4ins. wide. All parts of the counter are 3/16in. thick and are, therefore, able to be nailed as well as glued together. On the insides of the middle partitions, which will be seen to be the same size as the ends of the counter, two small fillets of wood about 1/4in. wide and cut from the waste 3/16in. stuff will be glued. These are to act as runners for the little drawer, and as figured, they must be put 1 1/4ins. down from the top edges of the