Invercargill Public Library children's librarian Lyndsay Tautari with the original Play School clock, rediscovered in the archive section of the library last week. Photo by Rob Landreth.
Invercargill Public Library children's librarian Lyndsay Tautari said the clock was bought by the Waikiwi Kindergarten in Invercargill from a TVNZ auction in Dunedin and then donated to the library after it became damaged.
"We thought it was a replica . . . we had no idea."
The show was first filmed in Dunedin in 1975 and ended in 1990.
Several of the soft toys - Humpty, Big Ted, Jemima and Manu - were now housed at Te Papa, which was also interested in the clock, she said.
"We have had it out on display and it is proving very popular."
