#300.1

American Wooden Comic Characters
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$350
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7"(18 cm.) and 8 1/2". Each is all-wooden with painted hair and facial features,each with googly eyes,she with large topknot and painted yellow head band,and he with partially-balding pate,button shaped nose and wide ear-to-ear grin with cigar in mouth; each with wooden body jointed at shoulders and hips and having painted shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Copyright 1924 International Feature Service,Pat. Applied for. (foot of each). Comments: depicted are Maggie and Jiggs from the comic strip,"Bringing Up Father",circa 1920.