Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.045.002 |
Object Name |
Striker, Match |
Title |
Child's Match Striker |
Date |
late 1930s |
Made |
McKay, Hugh |
Place of Origin |
Sydenham Township (formerly), Municipality of Meaford, Grey County |
Description |
A hand-made wooden match striker. The front side has a pencil crayoned-coloured girl, with an applied matchbox striker on her mid-region. The striker is a commercially-made one, apparently salvaged from a matchbox and it has green and red printing with "STRIKE - ANYWHERE" (now only partial on each side). The back side of the flat cut-out figure is pencilled with handwriting by Hugh McKay. The figure's feet are now missing. There is an intentional hole in the head area which would allow the striker to hang on a nail. |
Provenance |
Hand-made by Hugh McKay for his grand-daughter Donna McKay, likely in the late 1930s as a Christmas gift. The Hugh and Jeanette McKay family farmed in the Annan/Leith area of Sydenham Township, Grey County. The McKay family farm was located about one mile north of Leith. Donna was the daughter of Donald Gordon (Doug) McKay and his wife Olive (nee Beattie) who also farmed there in Sydenham Township, until c.1940, before they moved to Keppel /Derby Township to another farm in the Jackson area. The item was kept by Donna McKay-Mills until 2017. |
Collection |
Folk Art Collection |
Material |
Wood/Cardboard/Graphite/Ink |
Dimensions |
W-8.5 L-18.7 D-0.5 cm |
Found |
Derby Township (formerly), Township of Georgian Bluffs, Grey County |
People |
McKay, Hugh McKay-Mills, Donna |
Subjects |
Children playing adults Christmas presents Matches |
Search Terms |
Sydenham Township Leith (Village and area of) |
Function |
A home-made item, made as a Christmas present for a grand-daughter. It was a wall-mounted match striker item that was made in Sydenham Township, Grey County. |