- Estimate
- $500 / $600
14" (36 cm.) The firmly-stuffed black velvet character with ball-shaped black velvet head and cream velvet face, has black oilcloth eye, velvet nose, embroidered lashes and wide smiling mouth, black woolen rounded ears, padded wire armature arms, legs and tail, orange velvet glove-enclosed hands, green velvet shorts. Condition: very good, one eye missing, some repair at throat. Marks: Miller Manufacturing (other illegible marks). Comments: Miller Manufacturing for Aesop's Film Fables, late 1920s depicting character from Aesop's Fables Animated Films. Value Points: depicting a gentle-faced mouse from the film series.
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.