TOY, MECHANICAL, RABBIT
| Nom de l'objet : | TOY, MECHANICAL, RABBIT |
| Type de l'objet : | MECHANICAL RABBIT |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | RECREATIONAL ARTIFACTS |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | TOY |
| Matériaux : | fibre, cotton paper hair |
| Technique de fabrication : | MOULDED ADHERED CAST |
| Numéro d'accession : | 1975.0001.3936 |
| Pays d'origine : | FRANCE |
| Date de fin de production : | 1916 |
| Description : | One mechanical, musical toy; a rabbit inside of a cabbage. Green papier mache shell covered with adhered green cotton leaves (very faded). Head of rabbit, covered with white rabbit hair, pops in and out of top of cabbage. Rabbit hass long, movable ears and open, pink mouth with two teeth; two brown glass eyess. Rabbit is attached to metal mechanism (cogs and levers) inside of cabbage. Brass ring on back of cabbage with four-sided bar for winding up toy (key is missing). Small brass knob and lever on bottom of back of cabbage; moves in aand out (is disengaged from mechanism). |
| Fonctions : | Rabbit was given to Frank O'Reilly's son Peter by his Aunt Kathleen O'Reilly, on the occasion of his first birthday in 1916. Correspondence in Provincial AArchives of BC, Katherine O'Reilly to Frank O'Reilly, February 9, 1916, Old MSSS collection: "Love and kisses to my dear little God-son for his first birthdday. Fancy his stalking the Bunny in the Cabbage and then making friends with it!- Does he like music? I thought he might like the musical box!..." Mechaniical rabbit was probably made by Roullet Decamp, a French toy company. Decamp was chief assistant to Jean Roullet; he later married Roullet's daughter. Aftter 1889, the company became known as Roullet Decamp. Earlier versions of thiss toy were covered with fur, later versions with fleece. It originally had a ppiece of lettuce in its mouth. See Antonia Fraser's "A History of Toys," and RRobert Hale's "Mechanical Toys." Photograph of identical mechanical toy on pagge 24 of "Old Toys" by Pauline Flick, a Shire Album, number 147, Shire Publicaations Ltd., 1985. Text accompanying photograph "A musical automaton. Made in France in 1910, this fur-covered rabbit chews a piece of lettuce and waves itts ears to the sound of music." Note: The Vancouver Museum exhibited an identiical mechanical rabbit in their toy exhibit in 1987. It was on loan from Heathher Baker, owner of "A Baker's Dozen," an antique store specializing in toys. Her phone number in Vancouver is 879-3348. |
| Hauteur : | 29.0 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Département : | Point Ellice House |
| Établissement : | British Columbia Heritage Conservation Branch |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Victoria |
| Province de l'établissement : | British Columbia |
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