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Flying Bird
Robert RuhlBird flying around nest
- Model
- 8
- Type
- Animals
- Topic
- Animals
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- Bird flaps wings and flies in circles
- Materials
- Tin & plastic
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 38x13x14
- Condition
- Excellent
- Manufactured
- 1957 – 1960
- Box
- Excellent; has 31606 stamped on it
Research notes
the better known version is a stork (no. 7), where the base is a brick chimney, with a nest on top; this version is more beautiful, since the base is a tree trunk with birds and also has a nest on top.
Featured in
- German Tin Toys after 1945 — p. 284
- Lexicon der Deutschen Blechspielzeug-Industrie — p. 364
