Bruce Metcalfe was one of the most prominent of the Canadian Pictorialists during the period 1927 to 1932. President of the Toronto Camera Club in the early 1930s, he was a leader in the Modernist faction of photographers exhibiting in Canada. His close-up studies of children's toys were widely reproduced in journals of the day.

This and the following two lots are the only known prints of these images in this format.