General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

A cast iron toy tractor painted black with red painted.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

9.0 cm

Width

5.5 cm

Height

7.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Miscellaneous

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Arcade

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Illinois

City

Freeport

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1817-1923

Canada

Avery was a major supplier of tractors used by Canadian farmers and the advertisement for this toy appeared both as in insert of AVery's tractor catalogue as well as in their print adverts in Canadian agricultural journals such as NorWest Farmer.

Function

This cast iron toy tractor was used as a sales promotion tool for full size tractor...one could buy the toy for a child BUT one also needed to send the names of five neighbours who might be ready to buy a real tractor.

Technical

Provices an insight into one way tractors were sold in the Canadian context. This was the first toy tractor manufactured with the approval of the full size tractor manufacturer.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Mfr's:"AVERY/ [inside sticker] HUBLEY 1920".

Missing

Nothing missing.

Finish

Cast iron model toy tractor.

Decoration

None.