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Proud Peacock
Alps Shoji Co. LtdPeacock w/ moving tail
- Type
- Animals
- Topic
- Animals
- Country of manufacture
- Japan
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- While walking on the two legs, it raises and opens tail, closes and lowers it.
- Materials
- Mostly tin
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 18x13x14
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufactured
- 1955 – 1959
Research notes
The toy has 2 trademarks: Alps and ETCO (TOMY, until 1959); there is a version w/ tin feet, while ours rubber; there is another version "made in Occupied Japan", with a different litography (126 (31)); this toy was also made by B&S (Germany) in the 1950s
Notes
several missing fingers in feet
Featured in
- Post-War Tin Toys — p. 31
