Produced from 1899
Product number 170
Hand lacquered
Mechanism: Clockwork
Heigth approx. 20 cm / 7,8 inches
This toy with lifelike movement can be found in the color bleu of his jacket and a cream/brownish color of the pants, the jaket you can find it in many variations of the color bleu, from light gray/blue to bright blue, this is including by the children’s hands that were of course not all equally clean, but also mainly due to the influence of sunlight in the more than 120 year existence of most copies, and during the many years of production.
And the colours often became somewhat different due to the purchase of new rolls of fabric that often did not completely match the fabric used in the first production.
And of course, in several copies the clothing has been replaced due to wear and tear from playing, so it is not possible to verify whether all color variations are original.
Source: soleil du dimanche 1905
Both pictures from the magazine La Nature from 1900 page 53