106. 19th-Century Chinese Checkers Game with Rare Paper-Mache Figural Heads 13" (33 cm.) square board. 2 1/2" checker pins. The wooden board has fine original finish to showcase the 28 original "checkers" which are paper-mache sculpted heads, attached to wooden dowel pins for inserting in board holes. The heads have beautifully sculpted and painted facial features, with sculpted hair, hats, and bodices painted in delicate colors. The figural checkers are preserved in four original boxes. Excellent condition of a rare mid-19th century salon game. $700/1000
107. Amusing German Bisque "Monkey Tipping his Hat" Squeeze Toy 10" (25 cm.) including hat. A bisque-head monkey with painted brown "fur" and white face has painted blue downcast eyes, painted features, wooden block torso with inserted bellows, wooden lower
108. German Wooden Toy "Menagery" with Original Flocked Animals
limbs, wearing his original blue suit and holding
17" (43 cm.) w. 14"h. The wooden framed menagerie exhibit has lithographed
a grey paper-mache hat in his hand. When the
paper designs on the front with merry and colorful designs and a centered
bellows is squeezed, he moves his right hand briskly
name "Menagery" [sic]. Behind the metal bars of the three-level cages are the
up and down, thus tipping his hat, as though
twelve original paper-mache exotic zoo animals with painted finish. Excellent
greeting passers-by. Condition: generally excellent.
condition with some wear on paper cover. Germany, for the American market,
Comments: Germany, circa 1890. Value Points:
circa 1900, note the curious spelling of the title name. The rare toy is especially
wonderfully-preserved toy with rare bisque sculpted
remarkable for the inclusion of all of the animals. $1200/1600
head, original costume, amusing action. $700/1000
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