Old, Battered, Beautiful Monkey Acrobat Toy modern planter which guarded Mobile Bay

which guarded Mobile Bay

I have not been able to find out for sure when or where the tradition of using oil cloth for dolls began

The front of the right foot is chipped

the Master Salesman

The drawings were cut out and mounted to the black paper of old photo album

Old, Battered, Beautiful Monkey Acrobat Toy modern planter which guarded Mobile BayThis crazy thing I'm in love with it, all the more so for the rather distressed state of this old monkey, pieces of whose head appear to have been glued and re glued over the past 100+ years or so. No wonder when one uses the wire arm to raise and flip him over, if not gentle he'll smash pretty hard into the ladder on the other side. His arms, legs and body appear to be hand carved of wood, and then his head looks to be ceramic or composition over