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Perhaps yes, but they were children over a century ago (and I strongly suspected these sorts of toys predated their time, anyway).
by Wingman4l7 5y ago
Perhaps yes, but they were children over a century ago (and I strongly suspected these sorts of toys predated their time, anyway).
- dhosek 5y agoThat's the great span thing going on there. The house where my parents live has always been in my family had as its original residents my father, my aunt, my grandmother and my great-great-grandmother (yes, that's the number of correct greats there). The last of these was born before the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian empire in what's now the Czech Republic and was at the time the Austrian Empire. Family history in the old country is a bit murky so I don't have any dates for her ancestors, but she would have known people who lived under the Holy Roman Empire.
- hnbad 5y agoSure, but with a toy that simple I would expect it to be a lot older than just a century. But I guess it may be a cultural context thing: in my country some houses were built before Europeans even set foot in North America and the city I grew up in was literally founded by the Romans. Given how simple the toy is, I wouldn't be surprised to find out it dates back 500 or even 5000 years or more, even if it had to be re-invented several times in between.