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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cereus17, post: 9829783, member: 84316&quot;]Hi,</p><p>I just received a bunch of old stuffed toys and baby dolls from a friend who used to collect them. (Actually, she’s an artist and she collected them only to use in her strange stop-motion animation vids.) Unfortunately, she stored them in a shed, so many of them are in rough shape.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope to post several of the toys in the forum over the next few days</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not my kind of thing at all at all.</p><p>Hopefully, there are some knowledgeable toy collectors who here can help me to identify their makers and their approximate periods of production, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the first one: an organ grinder&#039;s monkey - I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I searched this on Google Lens, and found lots of similarly dressed monkeys - especially by Shuco - but nothing with the same face.</p><p><br /></p><p>This measures about 10 inches long.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a felt costume sewn over a tin body. The limbs are stuffed with straw.</p><p>(If the costume is original it clearly had a very clumsy repair - probably by some clumsy kid.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This must have been a wind-up toy. I can feel tin cogs moving when I move the limbs. Maybe it was holding cymbals?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance for any info!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]490515[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490516[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490517[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490518[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490519[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]490520[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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