 | Soldier Playing a Drum
Soldier playing a drum. Black hat, white and red uniform. Green base with orange sides. Wire handle which at one point activated the arms. |
 | Woman Feeding Geese Mechanical Toy
Woman feeding geese. Each head moves as the crank is turned. Music box. Redroof Paper covered base. Freehand deco, white wall border & green dots surrounded by orange. |
 | Pair of Hand Carved Toy Oxen
Pair of toy oxen painted red. Miniature yoke around their necks. Crudely hand carved. |
 | Pair of Hand Whittled Oxen Yoked to a Sledge
Pair of hand-whittled oxen yoked to sledge; very blocky bodies with stick legs and stick horns; twine for tails; well-shaped yoke and bows; sled made with roughly shaped runners connected by two transverse struts pinned to the runners; small vertical rods in ends of struts to represent posts; tongue... |
 | Large Wooden Rocking Horse
Large wooden rocking horse. Two boards comprise rockers and sides. Two heart shaped boards set in top simulate saddle. Wooden head and tail. Painted gray. with traces of decoration on tail - mane - etc. Probably manufactured not home-made |
 | Toy Lamb
Toy lamb mounted on a wood block (not original). Body is wooden and covered with lambskin. Glass eyes. The lamb bleats when the head is lowered and raised; commercially made toy probably imported from Europe. |
 | Toy Wooden Wheelbarrow
Toy wooden wheelbarrow with a solid wooden wheel; square rails shaped into round handles; body nailed to rails; round legs; painted and grained decoration, red and black; remnants of gold colored stencil of a horse on side panels; commercially made |
 | Set of Home Made Toy Houses
10 pieces, probably home-made of pine (a) 4 x 2 1/8", 41/8" tall, 3 1/2 story w/ exterior center staircase (b) 4 1/8 x 2 1/8" x 1 1/2" 2 1/2 story row houses. Door and window first floor. (c) 2 3/8"sq. 3"tall 3 1/2 story, center door house (d) 3 3/16 x 1 13/16", 2 5/16 tall, Gamblrel type "mill"... |
 | Plaster Peacock Bellows Toy
Plaster composition painted peacock on bellows. Blue head and breast, red and white eyes. Red wings, buff tail with red, blue and white splotches. Probably European. |
 | Plaster Rooster Bellows Toy
Plaster composition painted rooster on squeak bellows. Yellow green back, orange comb, gold paint down back. Probably European |
 | Plaster Parrot Bellows Toy
Plaster of Paris parrot mounted on a bellows. Green, red base, blue and green and red feathers, white head and neck. (used to squeak) |
 | Geometric Game
Collection of numerous thin wooden geometric shapes, made of 1/8" mahogany. Including an engraved print showing many buildings and monuments which can be made up using the thin wooden blocks. Print is titled "London Edward Wallis 42 Skinner Str". Box nicely made w/ fitted sliding cover. Print on... |
 | Jack-In-The-Box Toy
Jack-in-the-Box, covered square box, entirely covered with marbelized book paper. Jack is made from a coiled spring covered with a blue check shirt, and white skirt, very crude flat hands, head has lost most of its detail. Box has coiled wire hinges and harp. |
 | Doll's French Bedstead
Doll's French maple bedstead roped with modern twine. Identical head and foot boards have blanket roll--cylindrical crest rail with acorn termini. Boards have uneven scalloped sides which project at two points as tenons to posts. Four identical turned posts -- squat goblet finial above block, ring,... |
 | Carved Cavalryman and Horse on Wheels
Small, handcarved and painted cavalryman mounted on a horse with a platform base and four wheels.
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