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Educational toys consisting chiefly of coping-saw problems for children in the school and the home

Petersen, Louis Christian, b. 1878 · 1920 · Peoria, Ill. : The Manual arts press · 8 pictures

A 1920 manual of coping-saw toys by Louis Christian Petersen, published in Peoria, Illinois by the Manual Arts Press, aimed at school and home woodworkers. The pages show toy construction instructions with photographs of finished wooden animals on wheeled bases and dimensioned diagrams, giving a designer simple, hand-made pull-toy forms and their proportions to borrow for flat, geometric figures.

Woodwork · Toys

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