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Details
A German clockwork Parlour Maid
painted tinplate figure, in yellow skirt, blue blouse and white and red apron, in original box with printed lid label illustrating maid running after rat with broom, additional plain white label 'Improved clockwork helical-spring' --7¼in. (18.5cm.) high, circa 1905 (G, slight paint chipping and crazing, missing tin rat with rod attachment and broom, box G, one lid side detached)
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painted tinplate figure, in yellow skirt, blue blouse and white and red apron, in original box with printed lid label illustrating maid running after rat with broom, additional plain white label 'Improved clockwork helical-spring' --7¼in. (18.5cm.) high, circa 1905 (G, slight paint chipping and crazing, missing tin rat with rod attachment and broom, box G, one lid side detached)
See Colour Plate
Literature
See The Art of the Tin Toy, D. Pressland, pub. New Cavendish Books, p.70, fig.166.