American Wooden Characters,Max and Moritz,by Schoenhut with Animals

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8" (20 cm.) Each is all-wooden with socket head,painted hair and facial features to depict the storybook characters,jointing at shoulders and hips,and wearing factory-original costumes. Condition: very good,restored. Comments: Schoenhut,circa 1910,depicted are Max and Moritz,first appearing in the mid-19th century book by Wilhelm Busch,and then re-appearing in the early 20th century as the American comic strip characters from the Katzenjammer Kids. Moritz appears here with two different styles of topknot curl,both appearing original. Value Points: hard-to-find models from Schoenhut,the impish figures are sold along with a Schoenhut glass-eyed pig,and a painted-eye goose,both in fine original condition.