Automaton
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1930
Materials
Plastic, metal and fabric
Measurements
320mm (height); 155mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659776
Summary
A battery operated automaton of a drunken man (circa 1930), consisting of a doll with plastic head with moulded and painted facial features and plastic hands. He wears a black plastic top hat, a black fabric suit, and black plastic shoes. In his left hand he carries a brown plastic bottle, and in his right hand a plastic cigar. He sits on a grey metal dustbin beside a grey metal street lamp with pink glass.His arms are movable and the cigar and lamp have electric light bulbs. The whole figure stands on a pink circular metal base.