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Smoking GrandPa
MarusanOld man smoking sitted on a rocking chair
- Type
- People
- Topic
- Sports & Leisure
- Country of manufacture
- Japan
- Mechanism
- Battery
- Movement
- While the chair moves up/down, he takes a lighted pipe to his mouth and exhales smoke
- Materials
- Tin and cloth
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 22x12x20
- Condition
- Reasonable
- Manufactured
- 1955 – 1959
Research notes
box mentions "An exclusive G.B.C. toy" (George Borgfeldt Corporation, a massive New York-based importing company that operated from the late 1800s through the mid-20th century); scarcity 2/10 desirability 4/6
Featured in
- Battery Toys — p. 62
- Collector's Guide to Battery Toys — p. 163
