Very Rare American Wooden "Peverly Dairy" Milk Wagon with Driver, Horse and Milk Carton by Schoenhut

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24" (61 cm.) l. overall. 12" milk wagon. The wooden milk wagon with red spoked wooden wheels, black roof, original white paint and red lettering for "Peverly Dairy Co." is further decorated by a colorful scene of Baby First depicting a delighted child waving his bottle of "selected milk". The wagon is pulled by a flannel-covered horse with leather harness posed on a wheeled wooden base, and also included is the original Driver with original blue denim uniform and a wooden milk carton. Condition: generally excellent, original finish. Comments: Schoenhut, circa 1929, the wagon was created for the Peverly Dairy of St. Louis, a family of German immigrants who arrived in America about the same time as the Schoenhut German family arrived in Philadelphia, likely sharing some connections. As a promotion stunt in 1929 Peverly imported zebras to America to pull the firm's milk wagons around St. Louis and it is likely they also commissioned Schoenhut to create the toy wagon for them, although, regretfully, apparently not with zebras. Value Points: one of the very rarest of the Schoenhut milk wagons, few are known to exist, and with wonderful original decorations and storyline.