- Estimate
- $1,200 / $1,500
14" (36 cm.) The firmly-stuffed velvet character with round-ball-shaped cream velvet face, black oilcloth eyes, velvet nose, embroidered lashes, brows and mouth in funny half-smile, black wooden ears, padded wire armature arms and legs, velvet padded tail, orange glove-enclosed hands with spread fingers, orange felt shoes and shorts. Condition: excellent. Marks: Miller Manufacturing Los Angeles (stamp on foot bottom, other illegible marks) Aesop's Fables Don 19 (original pin badge). Comments: Miller Manufacturing for Aesop's Film Fables, late 1920s. Value Points: very rare character in fine original condition including original pin badge.
From 1921-1929, the cartoonist illustrator, Paul Terry, created a series of animated silent films "Aesop's Film Fables" for RKO Pathe. The short cartoons featured amusing spoofs of the original Aesop's Fables. A series of the characters in the films were created in doll form by Miller Manufacturing, late 1920s, and are notable for variations in actual head shape as well as facial details.