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Description
5" (13 cm.) A tin lithographed open-top vis-_-vis automobile with four spoked wheels features a brown suited man facing a little boy in sailor suit who is clasping onto the steering wheel drive shaft. The people have original painted costumes. When coil-spring wound, the car propels erratically due to the eccentric drive suspension, appearing as though the little boy and driver are each grabbing for the steering mechanism, the man moving his right arm up and down, the little boy bouncing up and down. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism functions well. Marked Lehmann. Comments: Lehmann's EPL model 495, introduced in 1904, a delightful vignette of early-century family life with complicated movements, and including lid of original box.