The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry
Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE 19735
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Title: Toy catalog.
Dates: [ca. 1840]
Call No.: Doc. 171
Acc.
No.: 80 x 240
Quantity: 35 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Location: 31
B 4
SCOPE AND CONTENT
Consists of numbered illustrations showing baskets, glassware, a wide variety of toys, and a few other items. This German sample book, or catalog, opens with 11 pages of illustrated baskets, 3 styles of straw hats for men, various kinds of trim, and glassware (jars, beads, bottles, flasks, thermometers and other scientific implements, mirrors, and pipe bowls). Then, in the second part, 25 full and some partial leaves of illustrated dolls, games, play sets, and toys--shown at one sixth full size. The toys include Noah’s Arks, animal figures, scenes on wheels, toy cannon, guns, and swords, drums, bugles, recorders, violins, harps, table-top skittles games, jumping jacks, colorful doll furniture, a toy sawmill, boats, village and farm scenes, a Garden of Eden scene, sets of toy food and dishes, Nuremberg kitchens, undressed dolls (some with wooden bodies, some with cloth bodies), stables, carriages and sleighs, and roly-poly figures.
The catalog may have originated in
ORGANIZATION
First leaf is paginated 12-13, followed by pages 16-24; then an unnumbered leaf with ornate "Zweiter Theil” (Part II) printed on recto and "Anmerkung” (Note) on verso, followed by pages 2-3, 6-35, 38-43, 48-55, 58-63, 106-111; numerous leaves, especially at the end, are torn; some are bound in backwards. Handwritten at top of page 2: I. Theil. (Part I)
LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS
The materials are in German.
RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
Open to the public. Copyright
restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Purchased from Rockwell Gardiner.
RELATED ITEMS
See also Col. 311, another German toy catalog.
A toy catalog published by Georg Hieronimus Bestelmeier is in the trade
catalog collection.
The
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Animals
Baskets
Carriages and carts
Costume
Domestic animals
Furniture
Glassware—
Hats
Musical instruments
Nationalities
Noah’s ark
Ordnance
Percussion instruments
Pistols
Soldiers
Swords
Toys—
Wagons
Catalogs
Illustrations
Toymakers
Other
title:
Musterbuch.
PAGE DESCRIPTIONS
PART I:
p. 12 12 baskets, with one or two handles, and of different shapes and colors. Nos.: 10,431-10,442.
p. 13 12 baskets, with or without very small rings on the sides, and in different colors.
Nos.: 10,443-10,454.
[pp. 14-15 lacking]
p. 16 12 baskets, with one or two handles, either as shopping bags or purses in different patterns or colors.
Nos.: 10,480-10,491.
p. 17 6 baskets with side-or top handles, 5 of which are nests of baskets, in a checkerboard or woven pattern; one basket has a lid.
Nos.: 10,492-10,497.
p. 18 7 nests of baskets with or without handles, with flip open lids, in different patterns and colors.
Nos.: 10,498-10,504.
p. 19 12 baskets with handles, some with flip open lids, in woven color patterns.
Nos.: 10,505-10,516.
p. 20 12 baskets and three small table mats; three baskets with a woven foot, some with side rings, flip open lids or open, two have inside compartments (to hold glasses?), in a color pattern.
Nos.: 10,517-10,531.
p. 21 9 baskets, some with removable lids, three are footed, and one is a hanging basket with a finial, all in a colored pattern.
Nos.: 10,532-10,540.
p. 22 5 baskets and three straw hats; baskets are closed or open, oval or rectangular with or without small side rings; hats have large brims and narrow headbands, colored patterns.
Nos.: 10,541-10,548.
p. 23 Large assortment of various items, haberdashery (trim of various sorts), jewelry (earrings, or possibly beads), different sizes and shapes of glassware (small squat bottles or inkwells, taller bottles and flasks, goblets, and what appears to be glass eyes for dolls), and other assorted items, colored.
Nos.: 10,549-10,632.
p. 24 Variety of flasks, funnels, a large glass ball, two sewing boxes, mirrors and folding mirrors, pipe bowls, some scientific glassware, and thermometers, one with the inscription: Thermometer nach Réaumur.
Nos.: 10,633-10,636; 10,636R-10,659.
Zweiter Theil [Part 2]:
p. [1] Note in German: The illustrations of the following objects are represented at only a mere one-sixth of their actual size, while for the numbers 10,132 to 10,134 and 10,135 to 10,139 one-twelfth [of an inch] has been presumed.
p. 2 PART I
10 Noah’s Arks, some with an open roof, others an open door, filled with various animals (Noah’s Arks with large hulls are also called “gondola arks.”)
Nos.: 3/0; 2/0; 0-5; 1s -5s.
p. 3 23 items: hunting scenes with animals and trees, soldiers on horseback, people with farm animals, goats, and cat with mice.
Nos.: 6-22; 6b-11b; 12b-17b.
[pp. 4-5 lacking]
p. 6 25 items: domestic and exotic animals, some with their trainer, some with their keeper; includes an assortment of poultry and birds, horse, elephant, camel, dogs, cat.
Nos.: 64-64L; 65-65b; 66-66R.
p. 7 24 items, domestic and wild animals: dogs, cow, lion, goats, deer, donkey, cat, squirrel.
Nos.: 67s, 67-69, 67-69b, 69k, 70s, 70-72, 72k, 73s, 73-82.
p. 8 18 items: mostly pull toys; domestic and exotic animals (cat, dog, money, lion, cow), some animals with human figures, hunting scenes; one pull toy has soldiers with a howitzer.
Nos.: 83-90, 90b, 91, 91b, 92, 92b, 93, 93b, 94-96.
p. 9 17 items: two howitzers, rifles (two with bayonets), pistols, bows and arrows, spear with a sharp point.
Nos.: 97-119.
p. 10 16 items: swords and sabers in scabbards, and vests with emblems. (embroidered breast cloth with emblem).
Nos.: 120, 122-123, 125-126, 128-129, 131-132, 134-135, 137-138, 140- 141, 143.
p. 11 28 items: drums, stacked in assorted sizes, one with the inscription: E Pluribus Unum and the American eagle, and a few tambourines.
Nos.: 144-172.
p. 12 26 items: musical instruments: flutes, recorders, bugles, horns.
Nos.: 173-235.
p. 13 14 musical instruments: violins and bows, mandolins, guitars, and harps.
Nos.: 236-254.
p. 14 7 games: English ninepins (or skittles), billiards.
Nos.: 255-264.
p. 15 26 items: dolls, women churning, a soldier, horses on wheels, pull toys and pendulum toys, man on top of a saw.
Nos.: 265-291.
p. 16 26 items: pull toys, crib, noisemakers, tops, wheelbarrows, a wooden egg which opens, a folding picture.
Nos.: 292-317.
p. 17 27 items: jumping jacks, jack in the box, baskets with flowers, snakes (both in and out of a container), small boxes.
Nos.: 318-344.
p. 18: 24 items: colorful chairs, tables, doll beds, whips, badminton rackets with shuttlecocks, and hobbyhorses.
Nos.: 345-373.
p. 19 29 items: butter churns, tubs, buckets, boxes, mugs and steins, bellows, billy clubs (?).
Nos.: 374-412.
p. 20 25 items: colorful boxes, small chests of drawers, and cupboards.
Nos.: 413-446.
p. 21 15 items: boats, sawmills (?), men with rollers, windmills.
Nos.: 447-461.
p. 22 10 items: horses with wagons, open wicker carts, sailboats (with and without soldiers), toy wagons.
Nos.: 462-472.
p. 23 12 items: oval-shaped boxes, closed and open, holding play sets for the creation of scenes: soldiers and tents, domestic animals, farms, castles with soldiers, deer and hunters.
Nos.: 473-478.
p. 24 6 items: oval-shaped closed boxes holding play sets for the creation of scenes: villages and farms, with trees, animals, people and a church.
Nos.: 479-484.
p. 25 6 items: oval-shaped closed boxes, holding play sets for the creation of scenes: a park scene and farms (with domestic animals, people, houses).
Nos.: 485-490.
p. 26 6 items: oval-shaped closed boxes, holding play sets for the creation of scenes: garden or park, Garden of Eden, hunter’s cottage, harvest scene, hunters chasing rabbits and deer.
Nos.: 491-496.
p. 27 6 items: oval-shaped closed boxes, holding play sets for creation of scenes: ostriches and palm trees, castle, soldiers and barracks, horse farm, train on a bridge, soldiers and tents.
Nos.: 497-502.
p. 29 15 items: ten open boxes are filled with soldiers, hunting scenes and fowl that are attached to small folding diagonal struts (or cross-pieces); and five boxes containing exotic and domestic animals.
Nos.: 511-520.
p. 28 8 items: oval-shaped closed boxes, holding play sets for creation of scenes: soldiers with barracks or a castle, boats in a harbor, tents, medieval knights at a jousting tournament, religious procession, miners underground.
Nos.: 503-508.
p. 31 18 items: oval-shaped open boxes of different sizes, filled with toy food and table services (plates, cups and saucers, pitchers, etc.).
Nos.: 542b-557.
p. 30 16 items: oval-shaped boxes of different sizes filled with houses, castles, animals, and ninepins (or skittles) and balls.
Nos.: 521b-541.
p. 33 24 items: furniture, chest of drawers, chairs, tables, cupboards, secretaries and stacked bedsteads and cradles.
Nos.: 577-598.
p. 32 22 items: open boxes (mostly oval, one rectangular) filled with furniture, dishes, or kitchen utensils.
Nos.: 558-576.
p. 35 9 items: stacked bedsteads and cradles, tables with an open box on top, three Nuremberg kitchens of different sizes, one filled with kitchen utensils, the two others with a stove and shelves.
Nos.: 623-630E.
p. 34 12 items: shelves, tables, chair, sofa, chest of drawers, desks, and one pendulum clock.
Nos.: 599-622.
[pp. 36-37 lacking]
p. 39 29 items: dolls with movable limbs (undressed, cloth bodies), two infants in swaddling clothes, two harlequins, three dressed dolls, and single arms and legs.
Nos.: 720-803.
p. 38 32 items: dolls with movable limbs (wooden bodies), and some dolls in costume.
Nos.: 682-719.
pp. 40-41 severely torn page, still a few doll heads (male and female) are noticeable.
Nos.: 858-861, no number.
p. 43 18 items: cats with kittens or mice in their jaws.
Nos.: 905-922.
p. 42 10 items: boxes filled with domestic or exotic animals and hunters with deer.
Nos.: 859-904.
[pp. 44-47 lacking]
p. 49 14 items: domestic and exotic pull toy animals; donkey, ox, elephant, camel, rabbit; and five mounted animal heads.
Nos.: 1034-1046.
p. 48 16 items: domestic and exotic pull toy animals and individual animals (lion, rabbits, squirrel, goats, deer, camel, horse, etc.), a horse pulling a cart.
Nos.: 1011-1033.
p. 51 21 items: bellows toys (also called Pipsqueaks): cats, dogs, deer, rabbits, and other animals; pull toys with lambs and a dog, one oval box filled with animals.
Nos.: 1056-1078.
p. 50 7 items: lion, tiger, elephant, horse, giraffe, cow and squirrel.
Nos.: 1047-1055P.
p. 52 30 items: bellows toys, birds (including parrots and other exotic species), and waterfowl.
Nos.: 1079-1110.
p. 53 14 items, pull toy horses and rocking horses.
Nos.: 1111- 1134.
p. [54] 8 items: rocking- and pull toy horses, all ridden by soldiers.
Nos.: 1135, 1149, 1137, 1150, 1139, 1156, 1143 [numbers torn on last toy, only a small part visible as the page is partly missing].
p. 55 4 items: rocking- and pull toy horses mounted by soldiers; soldiers on horseback on a scissor-shaped base; box of cavalry figures.
Nos.: 1162, 1163, [torn] 64, number torn off last item, only partially in view as the page is partly missing.
[pp. 56-57 lacking]
p. 59 9 items: pull toys, hay wagons, and wares carts, howitzer pulled by horses.
Nos.: 1201-1212G.
p. 58 5 items: open carriages with figures of drivers and passengers; an omnibus or coach drawn by horses; and a closed Eilwagen (express car or coach), also drawn by horses.
Nos.: 1196-1200.
p. 61 8 items: pull toys with sleighs and a plow (?), stables.
Nos.: 1213-1221.
p. 60 6 items: pull toys, horse-drawn carts and wagons, howitzer pulled by horses.
Nos.: 1205-1212.
pp. 62-63 damaged (torn and most of page missing), visible on p. 62: a cow stable (no. 1222) and a barn; visible on p. 63: a ship (no. 1230-1231), a pull toy with child in a walker (no. 1235), a clown’s head.
[pp. 64-105 lacking]
p. 106 23 items: domestic and exotic animals (dogs, goats, bison, cricket, deer, etc.), small hutch for rabbits, roly-poly wolf and roly-poly man.
Nos.: 2364-2384.
p. 107 10 items: rocking horses, baby carriage, two howitzers, train, man on a rocking horse, pull toy horse, clown on a rocking horse.
Nos.: 2385-2392.
pp. 108-109 damaged (torn and most of page missing):
p. 108: musical instruments and unidentified items;
p. 109: buildings (no. 2423), a bucket (?) (no. 2420), three animals, and the top of something else unidentified.
Nos.: 2393-2416.
p. 110 36 items: small figures in different costumes, including peasants, Arabs, and medieval people.
Nos.: 2430 à 2432, 2433 à 2435, 2436 à 2438.
p. 111 12 items: 12 figures in different costumes depicting a hunter, Arabs, a peasant, medieval figures, an 18th century man.
Nos.: 2439 à 2441, 2442 à 2445.
Separate envelope: blank labels removed from pages 48-49 and 110