#181

American Wooden Pinn Family by Schoenhut
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$650
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5 1/2"-8 1/2". Each of eight dolls has egg-shaped head attached to wooden block torso with clothespin-shaped arms and legs, painted facial features with "O" shaped eyes, yarn hair, simple costume to represent their personage, and some with original paper label designating their amusing names such as "Clo Pinn" or "Beauty Pinn" or "Harry Pinn". Some are marked on foot base "Patent pending 1936c. B.T.M. St. Paul, Minn". Also included are three similar dolls with variations in limb construction, two wearing early football costume. Circa 1936.