DOI issue:
No. 357 (December 1922)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21396#0366
STUDIO-TALK
TOY ANIMALS HAND CARVED IN
WOOD TO SCALE AND PAINTED
IN NATURAL COLOURS. BY F. H.
WHITTINGTON, BROCKENHURST
of no little importance in these days, the Human types and domestic animals also
prices he charges are quite reasonable. c> figure prominently, and among them are
With these Brockenhurst toys we illus- some very faithful reproductions of men
trate some made in Belgium under the and women of the urban and country
auspices of a co-operative organisation districts dressed in the costumes peculiar
which provides occupation for disabled to them. The animal creation is not
Belgium soldiers. " Le Jouet Beige " is its confined to the domestic kinds, for there
name and most of the toys produced by its are tigers and polar bears with jointed
proteges have a distinctly Belgian character, limbs keeping company with rabbits, dogs,
Besides single models of old houses of horses and roosters. Most of the toys
various types, they include miniature are made from models supplied to " Le
replicas of groups of habitations such as Jouet Beige " by three ladies—Madame
the Grand Place at Furnes, the Beguinage Franchomme van Halteren, Mile. Leo Jo
at Dixmude, the old village of Lisseweghe. and Mme. Meunier Gaudron. In the
TOY ANIMALS HAND CARVED IN
WOOD TO SCALE AND PAINTED
IN NATURAL COLOURS. BY F. H.
WHITTINGTON, BROCKENHURST
of no little importance in these days, the Human types and domestic animals also
prices he charges are quite reasonable. c> figure prominently, and among them are
With these Brockenhurst toys we illus- some very faithful reproductions of men
trate some made in Belgium under the and women of the urban and country
auspices of a co-operative organisation districts dressed in the costumes peculiar
which provides occupation for disabled to them. The animal creation is not
Belgium soldiers. " Le Jouet Beige " is its confined to the domestic kinds, for there
name and most of the toys produced by its are tigers and polar bears with jointed
proteges have a distinctly Belgian character, limbs keeping company with rabbits, dogs,
Besides single models of old houses of horses and roosters. Most of the toys
various types, they include miniature are made from models supplied to " Le
replicas of groups of habitations such as Jouet Beige " by three ladies—Madame
the Grand Place at Furnes, the Beguinage Franchomme van Halteren, Mile. Leo Jo
at Dixmude, the old village of Lisseweghe. and Mme. Meunier Gaudron. In the