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Add to wishlistFrench Singing Bird mechanical music Automaton
EUR 1.952,00Category: Automaton and musicboxes
30 cm/12" high is this lovely mechanical music box-automata with a singing bird in a birdcage. All clockwork driven imitate a bird song so beautifully whilst opening the beaks, turning the heads & moving the tail in time to the song. Clockwork. When wind up the bird sing with 3 different tunes. The bird is covered with feathers and the decoration inside is leaves and flowers. Fine original condition all over. France ca 1910 These marvellous objects of mechanical music,
Add to wishlistLarge antique musical clown " Roly Poly". Papier-mache. Folk art, Erzgebirge, Germany
EUR 980,00Category: Wooden toys
A fine piece of Folk art from Erzgebirge Germany. Beautiful large antique wooden Musical example of "Roly Poly". Detailed face painting and multi-colored dress in bright colors. Extremely colorful figure, musical base, Handpainted papier mache. Excellent condition. Minimal signs of wear. Germany ca 1890. Made of Papiermache and wood, finely painted details. All original. No restoration. Size L. 20 cm/ 8". H. on Platform 23 cm /9"
Add to wishlistWonderful all original black doll with flirting eyes. Mint and boxed.
EUR 185,00Category: Old Dolls after after 1930
Wonderful all original black doll with flirting eyes. Mint and boxed. Perfect condition. Large inset flirting eyes. Black hair, Original dress and shoes. Wonderful condition. She in her original box. Never played with. H.44 cm.
Add to wishlistMechanical hand painted tin toy: A Fernand Martin (France) clockwork automaton, "Bécassine Casseuse d'assiettes". France.
EUR 2.400,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
A Fernand Martin (France) clockwork automaton: "Madelon Casseuse D'Assiettes". Clockwork toy of part litho, part hand painted. A very amusing and inventive toy design, features woman holding stack of plates while attempting to walk and not drop them all without apparent success. 6 1/2" h./ 16,5 cm. The toy is called Casseuse d´assiettes, After the toy is wound up and released, the body of the woman is designed to move back and forth while the feet move. Near the end, the figure falls backwards and the plate stack is released and the plates fly off. On the back of the head is a circle with the letters "F M" inside and the word "Paris" underneath the letters. 16,5 cm./ 6 1/2" Martin toys are portraying French life in the 19th century. They are crude in one way and sophisticated in another. Martin's genius was to observe everyday people and transform them into toys. Many times toys are made for children but with adults in mind. The subtleties would be lost on a child. See F.Marchand,L''''Historie des Jouets Martin,Paris 1987.
Add to wishlistPenny Toy: High chair with a baby. Fischer, Germany.
EUR 395,00Category: Penny Toys
Very nice lithograph baby chair made by Fischer,Germany. Excellent conditio, Near Mint. H.4"-10 cm. Se David Pressland, Penny Toys, New Cavendish Books, London 1991.
Add to wishlistLehmann Zig-Zag tin toy. Mint condition. EPL 640. Germany. ca 1910
EUR 1.990,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
This Lehmann toy features two large tin wheels that support a two-seated apparatus, a white man holding a steering wheel and a black man holding the drive shaft seated at either side. When coil-spring is wound up, the vehicle zig-zag rolls in an infinitely changing manner, the figures bouncing up and down and moving their arms.drive shaft seated at either side. The toy combines lithographed wheels and car, handpainted figures. Excellent condition, mechanism functions well. Marked Lehmann. Lehmann's EPL 640, circa 1910. Size: H.5" ( 13 cm) W. 5" (13 cm.)
Add to wishlistTipp & co tin plate Fire ladder truck with 4 firemen. Germany. 1929.
EUR 650,00Category: Antique Tinplate cars, ships, airplanes and motorbikes
Fire ladder truck lithographed tin from TiPPCO with 4 seated firemen. Open bed truck contains extension ladder on base with leaves,Clockwork activated. This firecar is in a very good condition and all the parts are original.L= 27 cm/10-1/2"inch. Made about 1930. Good working condition.All parts original.
Add to wishlistLehmann “Mikado Family” . Epl # 350. lady w/baby in coolie cart
EUR 1.995,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Lehmann “Mikado Family” lady w/baby in coolie cart Known as EPL 350, this early toy from 1894 to 1918 depicts an oriental man pulling a rickshaw with a seated woman rocking a baby in her arms. Handpainted. It operates by string drive and was designed for the man’s legs to alternate as if walking as the toy moves along. The Lehmann logo and name are stamped into the metal, not painted on. Size: W 6 1/2" H. 5 1/2" / W. 16,5 cm x H. 13, 5 cm. Good condition. Working well, some wear due to age. Literatur: Heike Köhler/Katharina Kreschel: Vom störischen Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom. Brandenburger Museumshefte 6, Brandenburg an der Havel 2007; Jürgen & Marianne Clieslik: Ein Jahrhundert Blechspielzeug, München 1981. Helmut Schwarz/Marion Faber: Bewegte Zeiten/Moving Times. Ernst Paul Lehmann-Patentwerk. Geschichte einer Spielwarenfabrik/History on a Toy Factory, Hrsg. Museen der Stadt Nürnberg 2003.
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