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Bear Golfer
Tokyo Plaything ShokaiBear playing golf w/net
- Type
- Animals
- Topic
- Sports & Leisure
- Country of manufacture
- Japan
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- Swings arm and club to hit the ball into the net; ball returns
- Materials
- Tin
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 19x8x10.5
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufactured
- 1959 – 1965
- Box
- Very Good
Research notes
Box reads "Shoots a hole-in-one Every Time" and has instructions; toy and box w/ two trademarks: TPS and HIRO (H inside a dog); in some toys, the second trademark is HTC (Hishimo) Pat pend 47113; scarcity 2/5; there is also a "Monkey Golfer", 1960, scarcity 3.5/5 - we have only the animal, ears missing
Notes
net has a hole
Featured in
- Japanese Toys — p. 51,141
