THE COMIC GIRL. Amusement with a Swinging Pendulum Figure in Many Forms -: Das komische Mädchen. Unterhaltung mit einer Pendelfigur in vielerlei Gestalten. - La fillette comiqueu. Amusement par une figure à penduler de divers aspects.
by [PENDULUM TOY]
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The toy includes a wooden stand and leaded pendulum decorated with a hand-coloured lithograph of girls upper body in a turquoise and lace trimmed jacket with pink bow above a supported on a gilt scroll; 6 interchangeable heads and 5 hats and bonnets; all heightened in gum arabic. [overall height of 18 cm]; contained in the original decorative box [15 x 13 x 4.5 cm], the lid with a hand coloured lithograph depiction of children playing with the game; all within a leafy spandrel decoration; below a scroll with the title in English, German and French.
A delightful mechanical toy with interchangeable pieces that rock to and fro giving the illusion of a nodding head. The figures include: a young woman with ringlets, a rather severe old woman, a black woman, a cat, a rabbit and a chicken; together with five different bonnets and hats fro the three women and girls.
According to a note in Johann Lothar Faber's Die Bleistift-Fabrik von A. W. Faber zu Stein bei Nürnberg in Bayern (p. 20) the artist/maker of the game was a deaf mute working from Nürnberg. Apparently some unscrupulous businessmen in 1858 inveigled him into allowing his name to be used on a counterfeit pencil that was pass it off as a product of A. W. Faber! Faber is noted for producing some of the finest and inventive games of the mid nineteenth century.
A delightful mechanical toy with interchangeable pieces that rock to and fro giving the illusion of a nodding head. The figures include: a young woman with ringlets, a rather severe old woman, a black woman, a cat, a rabbit and a chicken; together with five different bonnets and hats fro the three women and girls.
According to a note in Johann Lothar Faber's Die Bleistift-Fabrik von A. W. Faber zu Stein bei Nürnberg in Bayern (p. 20) the artist/maker of the game was a deaf mute working from Nürnberg. Apparently some unscrupulous businessmen in 1858 inveigled him into allowing his name to be used on a counterfeit pencil that was pass it off as a product of A. W. Faber! Faber is noted for producing some of the finest and inventive games of the mid nineteenth century.
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- Seller
- Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3210270
- Title
- THE COMIC GIRL. Amusement with a Swinging Pendulum Figure in Many Forms -
- Author
- [PENDULUM TOY]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.W.F. & W. [i.e. Georg Wolfgang Faber, lithographer]
- Place of Publication
- [Nürnberg]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women in Literature & Society; Fun & Games;
Terms of Sale
Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2021
Croydon, Surrey
About Pickering & Chatto, Antiquarian Booksellers
Pickering & Chatto has been dealing in rare books for the best part of two centuries. Since 2014 we have been based in the vestry of St. Clement's Church in the City of London, and have a stock of some 2000+ books, principally in the fields of literature, philosophy, social sciences, science and medicine, law and women's studies, from the fifteenth to the first decades of the twentieth century.Due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions our offices are at present closed. We are, however, always happy to receive any inquiries by email.
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