$150
Sold
sold
Click image to enlarge
Description
8" (20 cm.) Each is one-piece lithographed tin figure depicting a popular puppet figure of Edgar
Bergen's radio and theatre performances,each with imaginatively-lithographed details of facial
features and costumes. When wound,they teeter side-to-side as though walking,Charlie's mouth
opens and closes,and Mortimer's hat (missing) is designed to bounce up and down. Each is
signed Marx with the name of the character,and copyright 1939. Excellent condition of
lithography and mechanism,hat missing. Marx,circa 1940,the toy was originally marketed as "The
McCarthy Strut".