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Popeye

Character Toy
ca. 1929 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Clockwork toy figure of Popeye the cartoon and comic strip character. Made of metal and celluloid, painted pink with with a white cap he wears a black and red shirt with white buttons, blue trousers, black shoes, orange hair, anchor tattoos on arms. When wound his head moves up and down and side to sideon a long neck. Arms dangle down from a rod stuck through the body and no longer function. The clockwork mechanism is fastened to the outside with metal tabs in back and on crown of head.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Mechanical Toy
  • Mechanical Toy
TitlePopeye (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted metal and celluloid
Brief description
Celluloid clockwork toy figure of Popeye made in Germany or the United States about 1929
Physical description
Clockwork toy figure of Popeye the cartoon and comic strip character. Made of metal and celluloid, painted pink with with a white cap he wears a black and red shirt with white buttons, blue trousers, black shoes, orange hair, anchor tattoos on arms. When wound his head moves up and down and side to sideon a long neck. Arms dangle down from a rod stuck through the body and no longer function. The clockwork mechanism is fastened to the outside with metal tabs in back and on crown of head.
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Copyright KING FEATURES SYNDICATE INC.1929' (on label)
  • "FOREIGN" (printed in celluloid)
Credit line
Given by Miss Doris Woollon
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
MISC.491&A-1986

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Record createdFebruary 16, 2004
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