Toy Farm (retired)
Dec 20, 2015 17:07:32 GMT -5
Post by maggiedoll on Dec 20, 2015 17:07:32 GMT -5
Toy Farm
Item# JAAS $16
Retired
Josefina fell in love with a fascinating American toy she saw at the Santa Fe plaza—a tiny wooden farm. It looked so different from the low, flat-roofed adobe farms of New Mexico! Your toy farm includes a house, a chimney, front steps, a barn, two trees, two fences, a horse, a cow, a goat, a pig, and a wagon loaded with lumber. Store it all away in a wooden box for safe keeping.
Item# JAAS $16
Retired
Josefina fell in love with a fascinating American toy she saw at the Santa Fe plaza—a tiny wooden farm. It looked so different from the low, flat-roofed adobe farms of New Mexico! Your toy farm includes a house, a chimney, front steps, a barn, two trees, two fences, a horse, a cow, a goat, a pig, and a wagon loaded with lumber. Store it all away in a wooden box for safe keeping.
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Josefina's Toy Farm is everything that Peasant Company was proud of, it an important part of the story, well made and (I assume) history accurate. It is also very PC tiny, fragile and expensive on the secondary market. If you pull up American Sales page on the Way Back Machine to around 2001 you will find these little suckers on clearance for about $8. Yeah, I was not that lucky.
Every little thing fits into Josefina's hand and is painted wood.
The house is very detailed. Yeah someone good with a thing paintbrush could recreated this set but the devil in these details is a great devil.
I don't let the steps and never used them, it seems like a silly little piece.
Random fact, the house is hollow. It helps in storage in the box and makes the house more fragile and light. Also a random place to keep a house.
The barn looks like the house, except with a wide open space enough for the cow to look out.
The two fences are really key into creating new scene.
If something is destined to be lost, broken or missing from a set I would place money on the cart and the tiny piece of wood. It is accidently step or drop on it fragile, but accidently putting too much pressure between the thumb and finger fragile. The animals are of more study type, roughly the same size of Felicity's ark.
The tiny pig is the reason why Josefina fell in love with this set, his a cute little pig.
In the what...the side of the set, the box. I mean, a nine year old should be able to carry her toy farm box, not to be able to store her goat.
I have a soft spot for Josefina and her well detailed collection. I really wish that this makes a Beforever return, and hope it would be a more study sort. For its cuteness, playability (but for careful fingers!) and craftsmanship. A