Automaton
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1950
Materials
Fur fabric, metal, plastic, ribbon and cotton
Measurements
135 mm (width); 265 mm (height)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668902
Summary
An automaton of a brown fur bear with a white plastic cup in his left hand and a brown plastic Pepsi Cola in his right hand (circa 1950). This brown fur bear has yellow material ears, opaque and brown plastic eyes and a yellow hard plastic nose and mouth with flexible red tongue. Around his neck is a faded yellow ribbon with a red plastic strip vertically down his chest. The Pepsi Cola bottle has a band of diamond patterning and a yellow label with 'Pepsi-Cola' in red and 'Quality Quality' in yellow on a black background. He is seated on a half round tin, decorated in brown and yellow as a yellow log. On one end of this are painted two yellow rabbits. On the other end is a yellow and brown squirrel. At the back beneath the bear's small round fur tail, is a small black tin box with a red switch which moves from 'off' to 'on'. The base of the pseudo tin log is painted black and opens to reveal the space painted green for two batteries (not there) with battery shape outlined in green with 'UM' printed in green. 'Registered trade mark, made by RVT Japan' is printed around a circle of green. On the other battery shape it says 'Trade mark, Alps, Japan'.