TOP
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- DIABOLO OR SPINNING TOP
- Date Range From
- 1935
- Date Range To
- 1945
- Materials
- WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19780009000
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- DIABOLO OR SPINNING TOP
- Date Range From
- 1935
- Date Range To
- 1945
- Materials
- WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 2
- Height
- 10.2
- Diameter
- 3.5
- Description
- TOP & BOTTOM PAINTED RED WITH A WHITE FACE PAINTED ON TOP AND THE NAME "BIMBO" PAINTED ON BOTTOM SECTION. "MBO" ARE NOT VISIBLE OR RECOGNIZABLE. PAINTED WORN AND FADED. SMALL GROOVE ON UPPER EDGE OF BOTTOM PIECE.
- Subjects
- TOY
- Historical Association
- LEISURE
- History
- DONOR FOUND THE TOP IN A BARREL IN THE BASEMENT OF HER FATHER'S DRUGSTORE (WHEN HE RENTED BUILDING) IN 1945 IN SUTHERLAND, SASKATCHEWAN. *UPDATE* IN 2018, COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT ELISE PUNDYK CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS INCLUDING SOME DONATIONS MADE BY JEAN JOHNSTONE (NEE POTTS). AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ORIGINAL DONOR, JEAN JOHNSTONE WAS CONDUCTED. WHEN ASKED IF SHE REMEMBERED THE ARTIFACT SHE STATED, “IT WAS ONE OF MY VERY EARLY, EARLY - LIKE I CAN’T REMEMBER HOW EARLY IT WAS - THAT I GOT IT. …THE SPINNING TOP … WAS A VERY EARLY THING BUT I PLAYED WITH IT FOREVER. IT’S A VERY SIMPLE LITTLE TOY BUT IT’S A TYPICAL 40S, 30S-40S GIFT PROBABLY FROM SOMEONE. YEAH.” THE INTERVIEW AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND IN PERMANENT FILE P20000011001.
- Catalogue Number
- P19780009000
- Acquisition Date
- 1977-12
- Collection
- Museum
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