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Mandarin tin toy made by Lehmann EPL# 565.Germany

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Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Mandarin in the early version with hand painted coolies. Made by Lehmann before 1920 in Brandenburg. This windup toy features two coolies walking along with natural leg motion carrying a man seated in a highly decorated box. The man in the box is holding the pigtail of the front coolie, presumably confirming his superior social status. Wind up. Working fine.Very good condition Only minor wear. L. 7 inch" W. 7" (17,5x 17, 5 H. cm) Literature:see Heike Köhler og Katharina Kreschel,Von Störischer Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom.Brandenburger Museumshefte 6,Brandenburg an der Havel 2007. Jürgen & Marianne Clieslik,Ein Jahrhundert Blechspielzeug,München 1981. Helmut Schwarz og Marion Faber,Moving Times,Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk,,History on a Toy Factory,Toy Museum Nürnberg 2003.

3 Lovely unusually Antique Christmas ornaments: Black people on Spun Glass .

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Category: Christmas and holiday ornaments
Here are 3 lovely old ornaments on spun glass: Black people scraps on the front: one smokes cigar, another plays his instrument and the lady powders her face for Christmas. All original. German for the American Market. Ca 1890. Across: 10 cm/4" -instrument 14 cm/ 5,5". NOTE: PRICE IS FOR ONE:

Elegant golden Dollhouse Chandelier with Angel. 6 branches.

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Category: Antique Dollhouse Accessories
This is a great chandelier for the antique Dollhouse. The golden chandelier has 6 branches of metal an a center post with an angel. The are three branches hold candles and three branches have bulbs with lacey shades. A fine made chandelier with wonderful details. L.: 9 cm/ 3,6"

Gama,Germany. Hand painted black boy with dog.

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Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
A hand painted wind up toy made by Georg Adam Mangol,Fürth. Black boy with a dog made in 1920es. Working fine. Good condition.A smaller part on the boys hat is peeling.H= 6 1/2 inch-16,5 cm.Literature:see Ulrich Schweizer,GAMA,Die Spielzeuge von 1882 bis 1945,The toys from 1882 until 1945,Tin and Toys Verlag,2010.

Hand painted tin fiddler with dancing clown,Made by Günthermann,Germany

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Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Painted tin with clockwork mechanism. Seated musician and a clown dancing to plink-plunk music made by Siegfried Günthermann, Nürnberg about 1905.An early piece in a very good condition and working fine.H= 10 1/2 inch-27 cm B= 8 1/4 inch- 21 cm.

Fine Dollhouse maid with molded bisque cap.

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Category: Antique Dollhouse dolls
This dollhouse maid has a MOLDED WHITE Hairband and is dressed in her original outfit of a black dress with a white apron. She has light brown hair pulled back into a bun and painted facial features. She is wearing black shoes with heels. She is just great for a dollhouse from that period! H. 5,5" 15 cm Circa 1910-20

Grandmother with wringles for the Dollhouse.

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Category: Antique Dollhouse dolls
What a lovely Grandmother in dollhouse scale.She has a finely painted face that includes lines to suggest wrinkles, and a gray painted hairstyle with a bun and a black ribbon. On her original body that is fitted with perfect bisque limbs, she wears a dress, that is typical for the period. Also notice her shoes with heels and blue painted stockings! Germany ca 1910-20. H. 5,5" / 14 cm.

Large-sized tin plate car made by Tipp og Co, Germany

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Category: Antique Tinplate cars, ships, airplanes and motorbikes
Tipp and Co lithographed saloon made by Tipp og Co,Nürnberg.It made late 1920s and into the start of 1930s.It features two opening doors. Driver. Wind up. Bulldog-like mascot Working fine. The condition is excellent near mint.L= 16 inch - 41 cm.Literature:See Toy Autos 1890- 1939.The Peter Ottenheimer Collection,London 1987,side 149.