#119

American Wooden Comic Character "Happy Hooligan" by Schoenhut
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Description
9" (23 cm.) All- wooden figure with painted googly eyes and button-shaped nose, wide thin-line smiling expression, jointing at shoulders and hips, flat-palm hands, cotton shirt and jacket, black felt pants, painted black shoes. Depicted is Happy Hooligan, the hobo comic strip character introduced by Frederick Opper in 1900 and presented as a King Features Syndicate until 1932. Very good/excellent. American, Schoenhut, circa 1915.