La Blanchisseuse – The Laundress – number 171 from 1899

~ Cor van Schaijk
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Produced from 1899
Product number 171
Hand lacquered
Mechanism: Clockwork
Heigth approx. 20 cm / 7,8 inches

This toy with lifelike movement can be found in many color variations, only the wash tub is always found in brown color on a green base plate.
It is not possible to verify whether all color variations are original.
The female must always wear an apron and a colorful shawl.

Advertising from the Journal de Fourmies hebdomadaire (non politique) puis hebdomadaire indépendant littéraire scientifique industriel et commercial
Original page from the 1908 catalog

It is very rare that the box image and catalogue images have the name of the toy in three languages

Here you can see the two specific Martin markings, the triangle and the round F.M.
with her clothes
without her clothes

Source: Both drawings from the magazine: Lecture pour tous de A’Lmanach Hachette 1900

Source: Courtesy Gallica, Magazine La Nature 1900 page 13

Gepubliceerd door Cor van Schaijk

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