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Description
19" (48 cm.) h. 15"l. Standing upon a wooden wheeled platform with painted ground is a bisque-headed boy with blue glass eyes, block torso and arms, alongside a paper mache donkey with leather harness, glass eyes, and nodding head. At the back of the platform is a paper mache windmill with attached shed. When the toy is pulled along, the doll turns its head from side to side, waves the stick he holds, the donkey nods its head up and down and the blades of the windmill turn. Condition: generally excellent Comments: French, circa 1890. Value Points: all-original and well-functioning mechanical toy with amusing activities.