Details
Two felt Steiff Billikins
one with embroidered open mouth the other with tightly clenched lips, both with faded golden plush wigs, boot button eyes and jointed limbs - 12in. 31cm. high, circa 1910, one with button in ear,(both worn and some moth holes)
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one with embroidered open mouth the other with tightly clenched lips, both with faded golden plush wigs, boot button eyes and jointed limbs - 12in. 31cm. high, circa 1910, one with button in ear,(both worn and some moth holes)
See illustration (2)
Further details
According to Jurgen and Marianne Cieslik in Button in Ear, these toys were registered under the name KrackJack to get round the copyright law of America where Billiken had been designed by Florence Pretz for Horsman