Clockwork crocodile

Toy crocodile owned by the Lucy family who lived on a farm in Modbury.

Ivy Lucy (b. 1893) recalled:
We lived far away from any shops and as it took several hours to get to Adelaide by horse and sulky we rarely went there, but sometimes Father brought home as a treat a mechanical toy or a special game. We could read only when the jobs were completed and we had washed our hands-but not on Sundays. The mechanical toys were brought out on very special occasions and used under the strictest supervision.