Price includes UK delivery.
 
An assortment of nine carved wooden animals originally forming part of a Noah’s Ark playset manufactured by the War Relief Toy Works.
 
The company, based on Church Street, Stoke Newington, London, employed disabled servicemen following the First World War (1914-1918). Records show that pieces from the Works were displayed at both the 1922 and 1929 British Industries Fair.
 
This menagerie includes; an elephant, giraffe and sheep along with a pair of bears, ostriches and camels.
 
These simple, silhouette-shaped figures are both robust and tactile retaining their original painted surfaces.
 
English, made in London, circa 1920.
 
The giraffe stands 13.7cm
 
Price is for the set.