Description: Rare 100 year old French toy in it's original box depicting two acrobats attached to a wire frame with brown barrel weights, cascading down a green metal ladder. Once assembled (loop the hand-painted black support frame over the bottom rung of the green ladder); the two clowns in frame are placed in the top slots provided at the side of the ladder; let go and the clowns will flip over a few times until they reach the bottom. The toy is completely original and in excellent original hand-painted colors of orange and yellow clowns, with a hand-painted green ladder. The clowns are tin, mounted in a wire frame, with a metal ladder. The original box is lithographed with the clowns performing and markings "Les Acrobates" "Made in France" "P.F. No. 450", "IMP. G. Doloy. Paris". Dimensions: 19" high (with acrobats in place) x 4" wide (acrobat frame) x 15 1/2" deep I have never seen this toy before, and the combination of being boxed, being rare, with a unique action, makes it especially desirable among collectors of vintage toys. I found it in an estate sale in Woodside, California. Attached is a brief 30 second video of the "action". Note: After 40 plus years of dealing and collecting toys, I am justly qualified to guarantee and present the authenticity of antique and vintage toys and banks; important considering fakes and reproductions in the marketplace *See my other listings of vintage toys.
Price: 1295 USD
Location: Incline Village, Nevada
End Time: 2024-12-03T20:07:36.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: G. Doloy, Paris
Year: 1920
Material: Tin
Age Level: 17 Years & Up
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Vintage: Yes
