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Skating Chef
TPSSkating Chef w/ fruit platter
- Type
- People
- Topic
- Professions / Industrial
- Country of manufacture
- Japan
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- Skates on left foot with right leg pushing off causing the body to dip forward
- Materials
- Tin and cloth
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 9x7x16
- Condition
- Good
- Manufactured
- 1956 – 1959
Research notes
Usually with brown hair; for this version with dark hair, add 20% to value; scarcity 2.5/5; patent no. 53073; box has mark H.T.C. (probably Hillel Trading Company, a trading house that bought the rights from the T.P.S. factory to ship the toy over to Western markets (primarily the United States and Europe) during the 1950s
Featured in
- Japanese Toys — p. 169
- Mes Rêves en Jouets Le Cirque — p. 88
