#353

Collection of Nine American Wooden Glass-Eyed Animals by Schoenhut
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$900
sold
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Description
8" (20 cm.) Each is all-carved wood with original painted finish and each has glass eyes, including elephant with leather ears, tusks, original blanket and head wrap, (rubber tip of trunk missing); buffalo with furry mane, leather ears and horns, open mouth, rope tail; double hump camel with rope tail; poodle with fleecy ruff and ears, open mouth, rope tail; donkey cart donkey with open mouth, hole at bottom torso for peg of cart, leather ears, harness (missing tail); pig with open mouth, rope tail (one eye missing); ostrich with open mouth; brown horse with flannel mane, open mouth, leather ears, leather harness and saddle (missing one ear); and donkey with open mouth, large leather ears, rope tail, and red blanket. All good/very good. Schoenhut, circa 1910.