["Ingenius" building bricks].

Title & Author:

["Ingenius" building bricks].

Publication:

[192-] (Vienna : Ingenius Technische & Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H.)

Description:

641 pieces (various sizes) : wood ; in 4 boxes (each 12 x 19 x 33 cm) + 1 booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 17 x 26 cm) + 1 booklet ([20] pages : illustrations ; 19 x 27 cm) + 4 sheets (each 28 x 16 cm)

Notes:
Supplied title.

Summary:

Collection of blocks from various sets of the "Ingenius" system of building blocks.
At the time of its production, "Ingenius" was advertised as surpassing all other such construction kits in the possibilities it offered for expression, free creative design and artistic effect.
The toy's accompanying literature, in English, French and German, was edited by its probable designers, architects Wilhelm Heinrich Kreis and C.A. Juengst.

Subject:

Wooden toys Austria Specimens.
Blocks (Toys) Austria Specimens.
Toys Austria Specimens.
Jouets en bois Autriche Spécimens.
Cubes (Pièces de jeu) Autriche Spécimens.
Jouets Autriche Spécimens.
Blocks (Toys)
Toys.
Wooden toys.
Austria.
Wooden Toys (recreational artifacts) Austria 1920-1930.

Form/genre:

Tongue-and-groove assembly system toys.
Specimens.

Added entries:

Kreis, Wilhelm, 1873-1955.
Juengst, C. A.
Ingenius Technische & Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H.

"Ingenius" building blocks

Holdings:

Location: Library main objects 271171
Call No.: TS2301.T7.W6 I54 1920a
Status: Available

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