Object Details
- Kenton Hardware Company
- Description
- The Kenton Hardware Company of Kenton, Ohio made this cast-iron toy truck during the 1920s. The red truck has wooden barrels in its rear bed, and the word “Speed” in raised letters on the side. Kenton was one of the major manufacturers of cast iron toys, and auto-related toys were one of their big sellers. Originally called the Kenton Lock Manufacturing Co., this Ohio firm made its first cast iron toy (a bank) in 1893. Kenton began making toy cars in 1903.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Sears, Roebuck and Co., Collection of American Toys
- ID Number
- 1971.295669.416
- catalog number
- 295669.416
- accession number
- 295669
- Object Name
- toy, truck, pickup
- Other Terms
- Toy, Truck, with Driver and Barrels; Toy
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Kenton
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Toys
- Trucks
- Record ID
- nmah_336032
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-3a6e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
