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Add to wishlistAntique mechanical doll wood/paper mache playing piano. Pull toy. Ca 1860.
EUR 2.300,00Category: Antique Papier-mâché/Paper-Mache Dolls and Wooden dolls (1750-1860)
This is a charming wooden mechanical toy of a young girl playing the piano. A wooden doll with paper mache head is seated in front of a piano in her best clothes and plays the piano, when pulled. Her face is lovely, fine molded and painted facial features and a lovely hairstyle: hair curled at the top and put together in a molded and painted hair net.Her body is peg wooden and seated on a wooden stool. She has small painted black boots. She is dressed in her all original silk long skirt and fine blouse trimmed with lace. The condition of the toy is excellent. All original and no repairs. - very appealing toy! H. 21 cm ( 8,8") W. 17 cm (6,6")
Add to wishlistMechanical hand painted tin toy: A Fernand Martin (France) clockwork automaton, "Le Pochard" (the drunkard) from 1899.
EUR 900,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
A Fernand Martin (France) clockwork automaton, "Le Pochard" (the drunkard) from 1899. 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. This is an early toy figure of a drunkard, with painted face, grey top hat with the Martin mark, a bottle and cup, with permanent key, black metal feet, check trousers and plain tunic (some wear and tear). Made to walk with a stagger and periodically take a drink, has survived remarkable well. See F.Marchand,L''Historie des Jouets Martin,Paris 1987.
Add to wishlistClown and son training.Early handprinted mögl. by Günthermann 1910
EUR 2.100,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Handpainted early toy showing a clown, who is training a "clown-child"Clockwork toy. Prob. by Günthermann.Good condition. When wound up the big clown teaches the small clown to make swings. Excellent function. H. 18 cm,
Add to wishlistLehmann “Going to the Fair” lady in riding chair. EPL# 290 1889, Germany.
EUR 2.475,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
These very early string-wind drive toys were made from 1889 to 1896 in Germany by Lehmann. Combining lithography and painted detail, the toy features a red-gowned woman seated in a promenade chair with lithographed design at the side, being pushed by a porter with painted blue jacket and lithographed striped pants. The woman has a large hat, shawl, and dainty feet that rest on the decorated car base. Flywheel drive causes the wheels to turn and the man to push the cart along. Excellent condition woman, mechanism intact. Marked Lehmann. Comments: Lehmann''s EPL model 290, made only from 1889 to 1896, inspired by the International Exposition in Paris. Lehmann got the patent from Ferdinand Martin. ( there were also made a version with the lady dressed in blue with a red fan and a square loga at the back of the chair. Literatur: Heike Köhler/Katharina Kreschel: Vom störrischen 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.
Add to wishlistAntique Dexterity Games & Hand-Held Puzzles: Embossed Tin Monkey. 1890
EUR 240,00Category: Antique Games
Antique Dexterity Games: Embossed Tin Monkey, whre you try to place his 4 pearl teeth right. ca 1890. Across 5 cm. ( 2") .Dexterity puzzles - also known as palm puzzles - have been a source of fascination for adults and children since the Nineteenth Century.
Add to wishlistTin plate toy made by Lehmann,Germany.Express Porter.EPL # 140
EUR 490,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Mechanical tin toy from made by Lehmann,Brandenburg. Express Porter EPL # 140. This piece is the early version made between 1888 and 1918. Driving by flywheel. Working fine. Good condition. Some little wear at one side and at the top. L=6 inch/15 cm.Literature: Heike Köhler og Katharina Kreschel,Von Störischer Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom.Brandenburger Museumshefte 6,Brandenburg an der Havel 2007. Jürgen & Marianne Clieslik,Lehmann Toys,The History of E.P.Lehmann,New Carvendish Books,1982. Helmut Schwarz og Marion Faber,Moving Times,Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk,,History on a Toy Factory,Toy Museum Nürnberg 2003...
Add to wishlistFernand Martin delivery boy."le petit livreur" Blechspielzeug.
EUR 1.290,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
6 3/4"(17 cm)Fernand Martin delivery boy tin wind up toy. The toy is clothed in striped pants and blue jacket. These toys were produced between 1878 and 1930 in Paris, France. The company was known for creating amusing figures. The tin litho is in very fine condition as is the outfit. Literatur: Fernand Martin, Toymaker in Paris 1878 - 1912 English edition ISBN 9789082200508. Literatur: Frederic Marchand: L'historie des jouets Martin, Paris 1987.
Add to wishlistPenny Toy.Baby carriage made by Fischer,Germany.
EUR 295,00Category: Penny Toys
Penny Toy carriage of tin plate made Fischer,Nürnberg.Child inside Made around 1915. Very good condition..L= 3,5 inch - 9 cm.Literatur: David Pressland, Penny Toys, New Cavendish Books, London 1991.
