Vintage Noble and Cooley Metal Toy Drum with Two Wooden Drum Sticks
This vintage toy drum with two wooden drum sticks was made by the world renowned Noble & Cooley.
It is fun just to look at even if not played with its brightly decorated parade scene complete with children and animals all orchestrating a tune along the side edge. The lip is a black tin/metal measuring 5" x 11" diameter and the two wooden drum sticks
It is marked Noble & Cooley and is in great condition
In 1854, when Silas Noble and James P. Cooley started making drums in the Noble farmhouse kitchen. It wasn’t long before they packed up and moved into a small building to create their very first factory. The rest was American history.
By 1873 Noble & Cooley produced 100,000 drums a year, some of which carried the nation through its most infamous moments. In 1860, Noble & Cooley created a drum of rail split by Abraham Lincoln himself, which would later be used in political rallies throughout New England. As the country changed and grew, so did Noble & Cooley. From making drums for the Northern Regiments in the Civil War, to expanding the factory and updating from water power to steam engine, Noble & Cooley continued to master their craft. Shortly after, Noble & Cooley made history yet again by creating the largest drum on record, used in Boston at Gilmore’s 1869 National Peace Jubilee.
Noble & Cooley also was at the forefront of the premium custom drum movement. In the mid-1980s, Noble & Cooley dusted off the steam bending machines and other heavy equipment inside their historic factory and, working with musician and designer Bob Gatzen, set forth to create drums with no compromise. Pioneering nodal point mounting techniques, precise bearing edges, furniture grade finishes, symmetrical venting, solid shell designs, staggered ply designs, hybrid shells and more, Noble & Cooley raised the bar for drum manufacturers everywhere and almost single–handedly created the boutique drum market. Many of these innovations have been imitated by the mass-produced brands but the company continues to innovate daily, introducing fascinating new designs on a regular basis and pushing the envelope of drum quality.
Whether creating the largest drum to date or designing the first modern steam bent drums, they have been innovators in the drum making industry since it began. Still located in Granville, Massachusetts
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