Description (Physical description)
Peterborough Museum: 'Moving mechanical bone model of three women and a dog at a large openwork bone spinning wheel with a windmill. Mounted on a platform, with three open work cogs and a turning handle underneath. Mounted on four teardrop feet. Their clothes are decorated with carved circles and diagonal lines. 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 figures of a woman spinning, another holding a baby, another holding a stick, a dog standing before her. Two women wear wide brimmed hats, one a tall cap. (Worked by a system of cogwheels fixed below the platform on which the figures stand: when the handle controlling these wheels is turned, the first woman lifts the thread to her mouth, the second kisses the baby and the third lifts the stick to beat the dog who backs away from her.) Small windmill beside the first woman
Event Date 1931
Author: maa

Loan (Other)
Peterborough Museum, 31/12/1947 to 31/10/2018, Long term loan, although some of it may have been on display.
Event Date 31/12/1947
Author: Imogen Gunn

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)