Description (Physical description)
Peterborough Museum: 'Moving mechanical bone model of a woman at a spinning wheel. Mounted on a platform, with two solid bone cogs and a turning handle underneath. Mounted on four round bone feet. The woman is wearing a bonnet and the details of her clothes are picked out in red and yellow paint. When the handle is turned the cogs turn, and these are linked to the spinning wheel with thread to make that turn as well.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Production / use)
Made by French (Napoleonic) prisoners-of-war
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Working model of a spinning wheel, with woman spinning, dressed in white skirt and bodice and wide brimmed hat. (Worked by cogwheels fixed below the platform on which the model stands. When the wheels turn, the woman lifts the thread to her lips)
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum, 30/07/1985 to 18/01/2019, Long term loan, although some of it may have been on display.
Event Date 30/7/1985
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, 01/05/2019 to 30/04/2019, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 1/5/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Long Term Gallery Loan)
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, 16/11/2022 to 19/11/2025, Norman Cross collection
Event Date 16/11/2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)