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Three metal tweezer 'peg' boards with 93 nails

Three metal tweezer 'peg' boards with 93 nails

1920-1939
A Cox Nailstick

A Cox Nailstick

1920-1950
A NIIP Peg Board, paper plan and 37 orange, yellow, green, blue and red pegs, each marked 'Birdseye 6'. A pre-war standard manual dexterity test. Stored in 3 parts.

A NIIP Peg Board

1920-1950
Standard 1920s-30s manual dexterity test for speed, in which bobbins are placed over metal spikes. Crudely made.

Standard 1920s-30s manual dexterity test for speed

1920-1940
A manual dexterity test comprised of a sloping wooden tray painted black, with framing metal insert impressed with 12 identical triangular patterns, each made up of 9 depressions to take ball bearings; with two boxes (in clear archival case) of tiny steel balls. Balls made by the Hoffman Manufacturing Co. of Chelmsford, Essex. 1918-1939. Test tray looks homemade. '27' written in chalk on top side of tray. (BPS Inv. No. 0109.)

A manual dexterity test comprised of a sloping wooden tray painted black

1918-1939