Toy Car
Toy Car
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- Description
- Orange and black toy Porsche with some parts made of Delrin, a durable DuPont plastic, and produced by Schaper Toys in Robbinsdale, Mn. William Herbert Schaper was a postman who in 1949, having developed the game “Cooties”, formed the W. H. Schaper Mfg. Co. in Robbinsdale, Mn. In time, the firm became known as Schaper Toys.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Toy Car
- Delrin Toy Car
- Date made
- 1984
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 102 mm x 48 mm x 51 mm; 4 in x 1 7/8 in x 2 in
- overall: car: 2 1/4 in x 4 in x 2 in; 5.715 cm x 10.16 cm x 5.08 cm
- overall: packaging: 6 in x 7 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 19.05 cm
- ID Number
- 1985.0281.09
- catalog number
- 1985.0281.09
- accession number
- 1985.0281
- Credit Line
- Gift of R. N. MacDonald
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- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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