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Description
27" (69 cm.) Paper mache head with highly-characterized features including rosy plump cheeks and nose, beaming smile of closed mouth and impressed dimples has blue glass flirty eyes; and is nodder-attached to chubby paper mache torso and legs, hinged right arm, and left arms posed to balance a tin bucket of vegetables that are (hidden) resting upon a metal rod extending from torso, black painted shoes, and wearing grocer costume. Condition: structurally excellent, original finish, mechanism not functioning. Comments: Germany, circa 1890, designed as an "attention-getter" in display at grocer shop of the era; when wound. Value Points: delightful fellow with highly-characterized expression, original finish, generous basket of victuals.