Carette Toy Steam Engine
date: label: date made
content: mid or early 20th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This toy steam engine does not bear a specific makers mark, but comparisons to other engines reveal similarities to a Carette engine model 108. The model 108 engine was made by Georges Carette of Nuremberg, Germany around 1900. The overtype engine has a horizontal slide valve engine and horizontal boiler over a black firebox.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Georges Carette & Co. was a French manufacturer of tin toys and magic lanterns from 1886 till 1917. Carette learned to manufacture toy magic lanterns through visiting the factory of August Lapierre. With the help of a wealthy Bavarian merchant, he founded his own toy company: Georges Carette & Co. in Nuremberg, Germany, where he was among the first to make electric toy trams.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Carette was primarily active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company Gebrüder Bing (Bing Brothers), founded by Ignaz and Adolf Bing, produced toys under various brand names, including Carette. At the outbreak of World War I, Carette left Germany for Paris. His company was seized as alien property and ceased trading in 1917.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Nuremberg
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Engineering Steam Toys and Models
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Maass, Eleanor A.. Greville Bathe's "Theatre of Machines": The Evolution of a Scholar and His Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Estate of Greville I. Bathe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.328934
label: catalog number
content: 328934
label: accession number
content: 278175
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toy, steam engine and boiler
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 7 1/4 in; 20.32 cm x 18.415 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 5 in; 20.6375 cm x 18.415 cm x 12.7 cm