Vintage Simplex wooden puzzle clock

Vintage Simplex wooden puzzle clock

• Manufacturer: Simplex Toys
• Date of manufacture: 1960s

Round wooden puzzle with cut-out pieces, depicting a clock.

Description
Complete in the original packaging. Wooden inlay puzzle "Puzzle clock" released by Simplex. The puzzle consists of a round clock made of plywood with figures cut out in it and a dial.

Shake the numbers from the shelf and try to put them back in the right place. For children from 2 to 6 years. Not only fun to puzzle with, but also to learn to tell the time. Beautiful object as decoration for the baby or children's room!

The decoration also consists of mice in a class who are taught how to tell the time.

Condition
This vintage puzzle is in good vintage condition with normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Size (box)

• Height: 1 cm
• Length: 20 cm.
• Width: 20 cm.

Simplex is a brand name originally used by the Steinmeier and Co. factory. Various wooden toys and educational materials (including puzzles, reading boards, play boards and clocks) were marketed under the name Simplex. Simplex is mainly known for its wooden inlay puzzles: plywood planks in which various figures have been cut out and which can be moved in and out of the plank with the aid of a (plastic) button. The creator of the puzzle board was Frits van der Vlugt, who started working with Herman Steinmeier in 1945.

Shortly after the Second World War, the first Simplex planks were made in Aalst by Steinmeier from residual waste from Philips. Round inlay puzzles were made from the discs that Philips cut from the plywood front panels to make room for the loudspeakers in their radios.

In 1972 the Steinmeier and Co company was taken over by Fisher Price Toys, part of the American Quaker Oats Company. Production in the Netherlands continued under the name Simplex Toys, in 1975 the company finally went bankrupt. The brand name Simplex has been sold and still exists, only the production takes place in China.

Since 2005, the Waalres Museum has had a large collection of Simplex toys and educational materials from the period 1945 to 1975.