11th Mar, 2025 12:00

The David Finn Collection of Toys from Thüringia and Erzgebirge

 
Lot 71
 

71

An 1820s Seiffen/Olberhau region turned wooden scissor toy of Hussar soldiers

Sold for £2,900
Estimated at £600 - £800


 
An 1820s Seiffen/Olberhau region turned wooden scissor toy of Hussar soldiers, twelve men with peg noses and painted moustaches, red painted jackets with yellow frogging, black shako hats with red plumes and large yellow R and red trousers, separate legs, circular bases with a hole, mounted on a scissor base, in original split wood box indistinctly inscribed, but a clear date of 1825— see Early Toys 2, Leipold/Bickert/Kreher, 2024 - page 316, fig 1 for these actual models

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