A very decorative wood puzzle / balancing toy in which colorful bird perch on cutout branches of a stylized tree, allowing multiple configurations while also functioning as a flat jigsaw. Examples are dated 1964 in museum collections.
Condition: very good, no box.
Founded in New York in 1945 by Frank and Theresa Caplan, Creative Playthings produced educational toys with modern design sensibilities that encouraged imagination over formulaic play. The company’s output included anything from Isamu Noguchi playground equipment to instruments designed in collaboration with ethnomusicologists and then-controversial anatomically correct dolls.
approx. 12"x 9" x.75"
A very decorative wood puzzle / balancing toy in which colorful bird perch on cutout branches of a stylized tree, allowing multiple configurations while also functioning as a flat jigsaw. Examples are dated 1964 in museum collections.
Condition: very good, no box.
Founded in New York in 1945 by Frank and Theresa Caplan, Creative Playthings produced educational toys with modern design sensibilities that encouraged imagination over formulaic play. The company’s output included anything from Isamu Noguchi playground equipment to instruments designed in collaboration with ethnomusicologists and then-controversial anatomically correct dolls.
approx. 12"x 9" x.75"