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A rectangular top with a full bodied figure of a swimming duck behind two smaller figures of swimming ducks over white leather bellows and a wooden base. The ducks are painted black, green, white, yellow and red. Bellows were intended to flap wings which are now missing.
mechanical toys
leather
painting (coating)
papier mâché
pine (wood)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Papier Mache
Pine
Leather
Painted
Duck
Animal
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
Germany
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.457
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