#1098

Two German Tin Mechanical Toys
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$550
sold
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5"l. porter. A celluloid porter is standing at the back platform of a lithographed tin dolly labeled "Champion" that is laden with two large tin streamer trunks decorated with travel stickers; when wound, he pushes the trunks, heaving up and down and then falling backwards. And 4.5" lithographed tin of businessman carrying his heavy suitcase; his legs of lithographed paper-over-wood arranged in spoke fashion under the costume so when he is wound he walks rapidly forward in a goose-step fashion, swinging his left arm. Excellent condition. Marked FV Made in Western Germany. Circa 1950's.