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Marx Merry Makers
MarxMouse Band w/ four elements and a piano
- Type
- Animals
- Topic
- Sports & Leisure
- Country of manufacture
- USA
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- The mouse standing dances, other playing piano waves its body, another plays drums, and a fourth violin
- Materials
- Tin
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 13x25x24
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufactured
- 1931 – 1935
Research notes
a variant has semi-circular scenario behind the violinist; another has the mouse sitted on the piano waving a baton with its hands; original price $.98; our toy was made in England; pat. for the mechanism; for the brake: 1393936 (1921)1595702 (1924);
Notes
one tin tap is broken
Featured in
- Greenberg's Guide to Marx Toys vol.1 — p. 50
- The Art of the Tin Toy — p. 149
- The Guide to Mechanical Toy Collecting — p. 42
- The Price Guide to Metal Toys — p. 94