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Express-Boy
GeschaPorter pushing a brown suitcase
- Model
- 57-1
- Type
- People
- Topic
- Professions / Industrial
- Country of manufacture
- Germany
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- Boy runs, then jumps onto the suitcase and rides it; these movements are achieved by two bars hitting the legs, then arms rotating
- Materials
- Tin & papier mache
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 9x4x7
- Condition
- Very Good
- Manufactured
- 1938 – 1960
Research notes
two variants: handle of the bag flexible and litographed (we have this)
Notes
we have a second toy with a red porter (poorer conditionn)
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How it works
Legs move as they are alternatively pushed by bars (1). Boy jumps onto the suitcase as arms rotate (2)
