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Hand painted tin fiddler with dancing ballerina.Made by Günthermann,Germany
EUR 2.400,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Painted tin with clockwork mechanism. Seated musician and a balerina dancing to plink-plong music made by Siegfried Günthermann, Nürnberg about 1905. An early toy in a very good condition and working fine.H= 10 1/2 inch-27 cm B= 8 1/4 inch- 21 cm.


Lehmann “Ajax”. Tumbling Acrobat Warrior EPL # 659"
EUR 1.190,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
This Lehmann "Ajax" toy was Patented 1903, this one ca 1914. The most articulated of all the Lehmann toys which uses a very complicated mechanism. It shows a warrior with clubs standing on long slats turning a somersault while fully extending. These came with two different kind of clothing and were expensive toys at the time. This one is the striped clothing version. Stands 10" ( 25 cm). Wind up, all original clothing and working fine.( Patent EPL 659) Very good condition. Some minor schratces due to age. Literatur: Heike Köhler/Katharina Kreschel: Vom störischen Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom. Brandenburger Museumshefte 6, Brandenburg an der Havel 2007; Jürgen & Marianne Clieslik: Ein Jahrhundert Blechspielzeug, München 1981. Helmut Schwarz/Marion Faber: Bewegte Zeiten/Moving Times. Ernst Paul Lehmann-Patentwerk. Geschichte einer Spielwarenfabrik/History on a Toy Factory, Hrsg. Museen der Stadt Nürnberg 2003.


Lil Abner and his band.. Tinplate wind up comic toy.
EUR 695,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Li'l Abner was a satirical American comic strip appearing in many newspapers in the United States and Canada, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Lil Abner and his Band. Comic tin Toy from about 1940. USA. Wind up. Working excellent with a lot of action.. A very charming mechanical tin toy. L.25 cm. H. 22 cm. Alle figurer spiller og bevæger sig, når legetøjet trækkes op.


French Wind-Up Organ Grinder Toy.France. 1909
EUR 1.600,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
French Wind-Up Organ Grinder Toy from 1909. Antique toy, lithographed tin organ box with hand-painted composition head, wire and metal body with fabric clothing, and two felt black hats (these possibly later). 9” / 23 cm tall. Diamond-shaped logo to side panel stamped “Paris/S.I.J.I.M.”. With key. Head swiveling action and music box both functional. See F.Marchand,L''''Historie des Jouets Martin,Paris 1987.


Rare early tin toy:Heavy swell #525, by Lehmann.
EUR 1.775,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
Rare early tin toy:Heavy swell #525, by Lehmann. EPL # 525 Heavy swell #525, walking mustached man with cane, made of tin with wind-up mechanism, tin body ist cloth-covered in original clothing and holding original key and walking stick, he still sways back and forth with his stick. H.8,5”/ 23cm1904-.Literature: Heike Köhler og Katharina Kreschel,Von Störischer Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom.Brandenburger Museumshefte 6,Brandenburg an der Havel 2007. Helmut Schwarz og Marion Faber, Moving Times,Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk, History on a Toy Factory, Toy Museum Nürnberg 2003.


Violin player- "Le gai Violioniste" made by Fernand Martin, France 1897
EUR 1.195,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
"Le gai Violioniste"made by Fernand Martin, France. This is a wonderful toy from 1897. When he is wind up he plays and moves his fingers. Great original MINT conditin all over.Dressed in cotton. . A great piece for the Martin collector. Size H.20 cm


Lehmann Zig-Zag tin toy. Mint condition. EPL 640. Germany. ca 1910
EUR 1.550,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
This Lehmann toy features two large tin wheels that support a two-seated apparatus, a white man holding a steering wheel and a black man holding the drive shaft seated at either side. When coil-spring is wound up, the vehicle zig-zag rolls in an infinitely changing manner, the figures bouncing up and down and moving their arms.drive shaft seated at either side. The toy combines lithographed wheels and car, handpainted figures. Excellent condition, mechanism functions well. Marked Lehmann. Lehmann's EPL 640, circa 1910. Size: H.5" ( 13 cm) W. 5" (13 cm.)


TUT-TUT- with RED weels made by Lehmann,Germany.EPL # 490.
EUR 975,00Category: Antique Tinplate Mechanical Toy Figures
TUT-TUT made by Lehmann,Brandenburg from 1903 til 1935.Good condition with some wear. Clockwork working fine. L= 7 1/4 inch-18 cm. Literatur: Heike Köhler/Katharina Kreschel: Vom störrischen Esel zum Kletteraffen Tom. Brandenburger Museumshefte 6, Brandenburg an der Havel 2007; Jürgen & Marianne Clieslik: Ein Jahrhundert Blechspielzeug, München 1981. Helmut Schwarz/Marion Faber: Bewegte Zeiten/Moving Times. Ernst Paul Lehmann-Patentwerk. Geschichte einer Spielwarenfabrik/History on a Toy Factory, Hrsg. Museen der Stadt Nürnberg 2003.