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Description
15" (38 cm.) w. 14"h. Having wooden platform with elaborate gazebo of branches and leaves,in which is arranged a bisque girl with blue glass eyes and closed mouth,who is pushing a baby carriage with four spoked metal wheels. When wound,the girl and carriage move forward and back in the fitted platform slit,while the girl turns her head,and the baby in the carriage sits up and lays down,waving her arms up and down. Generally excellent,mechanism and music function well. A faint stamp on the underside reads "P& J Quillet,Foire de Leipzig,34 rue de (illegible) Bruxelles" indicating that the toy was presented at the Brussels toy store named Foire de Leipzig,c. 1890.