Antique Clown Doll TIA for ANY info!

Hello antiquers! We've got this stuffed doll, appears quite old, head is hollow, hand painted, there is a string coming out of the top so it could be hung. Ornament of some sort?

TIA

 

YOW! Looks like a clown doll in a horror movie

Sorry, I know that was no help, but clowns scare me!

 

Sorry, Studio, no offense intended, but I have to agree with Marie... I absolutely HATE clowns! (I do, however, think that I've seen the face on yours before - but then again, it might have been in a bad dream.)

 

Me too, do not like clowns.
But yours certainly looks vintage.

 

Look at it long enough it blinks

 

It looks fairly old to me. Clowns don't generally bother me at all. I wish somebody who knew something about this sort of thing had looked in!

 

Faintly, from deep recesses of the mind, a voice is saying it reminds me of a hand puppet seen in early childhood.

 

This is a similar doll but they don't seem to have much additional info. Maybe yours had a beret.

http://www.parenting.com/shop/etsy-...ns-p48-p4268c1f1b106d7481d8a0967b8ef6d2b.html

 

That one does have a very similar face. Good find!

 

A couple more but only with guesses. And a celluloid with Japan.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-carnival-circus-clown-doll-1842986629


https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-carnival-clown-stuffed-doll-1799500047



https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-carnival-clown-stuffed-doll-1799500047

And one that's similar that they say says Japan.



https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1940s-50s-celluloid-face-458900595

 

I would say all of them are so similar as to be possibly same maker.....although some have "mittens" and others have "gloves".....but the faces and tie/hangar coming out of the top of the head is spot on!!!! Their conditions all vary and one said 30's to 40's......

 

Hello. I grew up in southwest Missouri. Around 1953 or so, my parents took me to a circus in Joplin, Mo. There, they bought me a clown doll exactly like the one pictured above. I still have it. It originally came hanging from a two foot long bamboo stick. My version is still more or less blue and red. Same red ribbon coming out of the head. Thanks for posting. Gregg

 

Hi George!

Welcome to Antiquers.............

Could you post a picture of it and post it here?

(this happens to be an old thread)

 

I agree, I was a child on the West Coast U.S. in 1950s, and the neighbor kid across the street had this identical clown on a stick. I wasn't impressed.

Imagine my horror, when I opened a package on Christmas morning, found a colorful tin music box inside. You wound a little handle on the side, and when the music stopped, out popped this clown head!

I hated clowns then, and have all my life. Can't believe that Santa Claus didn't know that. Maybe he did, because came to the conclusion that I was being punished for something I'd done sometime that year.

I hid the box and clown away until my little sister came along a few years later, and discovered it. And she loved it! I think she still has the clown.