
6.5" (17 cm.) and 8". Each has paper mache head depicting a highly characterized person with wide googly eyes, arched brows, over-sized nose, wide sculpted moustache, one lean with black hair and sculpted cap, the other short and pudgy with bald pate; each with all-metal body constructed in an intricate manner with ball-bearings allowing infinite articulation, paper mache hands with posed fingers in different manner. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: Bucherer Made in Switzerland. Comments: Bucherer, the Swiss clock and watch maker created a series of comical dolls, circa 1920, with unique metal ball- bearing bodies; this pair depict the comic strip characters Mutt and Jeff. Value Points: wonderful original condition of the caricature pair, each with original felt costume, and celluloid button; Jeff's pin saying "I'm the guy that done it all", and Mutt's pin "On your way".