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Paddy and the Pig
Ernst Paul LehmannMan w/ green hat mounted on a pig w/ a red cover
- Model
- 500
- Type
- People
- Topic
- Circus & Clowns
- Country of manufacture
- Germany
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- moves in circles backwards and forwards, the pig tilts, causing Paddy to move his trunk
- Materials
- Tin
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 14x6x14
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufactured
- 1903 – 1933
- Box
- 800
Research notes
Pats: USA May 12 (1903), April 25 (1905), Jan 22 (1907); DRP Feb 15 145861 (1903) 147496; dancing on pigs was a popular circus atraction in 1900; there is na Irish expression: "as Irish as Paddy's pig"
Featured in
- Lehmann Toys — p. 139
- Lexicon Blech Spielzeug — p. 231
- The Guide to Mechanical Toy Collecting — p. 18
