Lot 207:
Description
A collection of five vintage toys and novelty items, primarily of plastic and tinplate construction. The group features a Mattel Jack-in-the-music-box with a lithographed tin housing and a cloth-bodied clown with a plastic head. Also included is a blue and cream double-decker plastic bus featuring paper adhesive labels reading B O A C with a bird device. This bus includes its original cardboard packaging marked BOAC COACH with friction motor. A Marx style plastic police vehicle is present, featuring a push-down mechanism and its original illustrated cardboard box marked BY MARX. The lot further contains a Japanese wind-up plastic novelty toy in its original box marked WANDERING SKELETON and DSK MADE IN JAPAN, and a metal and wood harmonica. The harmonica is engraved RECUERDO DEL CENTENARIO, CARL ESSBACH, GERMANY, and bears a trade mark logo with a bell and the letters M S T. It is accompanied by a red and gold patterned cardboard box with a label reading THE GUARD’S BAND HARMONICA.
Condition report:
The Jack-in-the-box shows surface scratches and oxidation to the tin edges (photo 2) with light staining to the clown\'s fabric body (photo 3). The BOAC bus exhibits significant yellowing to the cream plastic and peeling to the paper labels (photo 7). The police toy box is heavily worn with crushed corners and tears to the top flap (photo 10), and the car\'s white plastic shows minor discoloration. The skeleton toy box has light edge wear, and the plastic skull shows minor surface grime (photo 17). The harmonica plates show heavy tarnishing, oxidation, and pitting (photo 22), and its box is in two pieces with surface losses (photo 19).
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