Voiture Nounou Poupon from 1929 By Cor van Schaijk

IN THE LATE 1920s, there were many wealthy families in Paris, and thus the opportunity to arrange childcare for the children. The nannies walked through the Parisian parks with prams. This certainly inspired Victor Bonnet to design a toy. Maison Eug. Vincent (or Maison Eugène Vincent), based in Paris and founded in 1863, was a renowned French manufacturer specializing in luxury carriages, medical devices, prams, and children’s furniture.

This toy has been produced in two different colors. When new, the color was brown or blue, but due to years of being played with and lying in UV light, the used quality and the long production period during which new batches of fabric were regularly purchased and not always of the same quality.

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