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Farming in Miniature -
Further Discoveries

Forest Toys (see Volume 2 page 412)

Page numbers refer to Farming in Miniature Volume 2; bold numbers in brackets refer to photos in the Forest Toys chapter.
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Farm Cart (page 413)
We omitted to point out in the book that two different wheel castings were used for the carts, with eight spokes as in (4), (5) and (7), or twelve spokes as in (6).


Forest Toys Farm Cart
As (5) but with provision for the tailboard to be inserted into slots made by gluing strips to the inside of the side boards, whereas in (5) slots were cut into the side boards.  The base of the cart and shafts were unpainted.  (Top of front board broken off.)





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