$2,300
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
37" (94 cm.) h. 23" w. The child's wooden pump organ with original finish and centered decal has metal medallion "Estey Organ Corporation, Brattleboro Vermont", and well-functioning foot pedal pumping movement. The organ was presented to Shirley Temple in her bungalow at Fox Studios, where, according to a mention in August 1937 Screen Book magazine, she learned to play "Oh Susannah". A humorous mention was also made of it by Shirley Temple in her 1988 autobiography, Child Star, speaking of Scottish Sir Harry Lauder who visited the set of "Wee Willie Winkie", "Spotting the tiny pump organ which had come with the cottage, he lowered his ample frame onto the stool and launched into a wailing Highland ballad".