13" (33 cm.) Standing upon a wooden platform with four spoked wheels is a bisque-headed boy with painted hair and facial features, pouty expression, original wooden block torso, wire upper arms and legs, wooden hands sculpted for holding objects, paper mache lower legs with painted striped stockings and sculpted buckled shoes, original costumes. The boy is holding a bird cage in one hand, a bird on a pole in the other, and has a wooden cage with bird attached to his back torso. On the underside of the platform are three wooden bellows which attach with wire mechanism to the wheels. When the toy is pulled, the boy turns his head from side to side, and various bird "songs" are emitted from the hidden bellows. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1890. Value Points: very rare and delightful pull-toy with carved wooden colorful birds and cages, unusual mechanical action and sounds particularly appropriate to the 19th century fascination with bird sounds.