Reference number: H2314

Status: for sale

Size in inches: Base is 5 and 7/8 by 5 and 3/8. Height is 4 and 3/4.

Condition: Excellent.

Price: $275.00

Comments: “Michelin” is a French tire company based in Clermont-Ferrand. The Michelin Man, “Bibendum” was created by Marius Rossillon (O’Galop) in 1898 and has changed in morphology over the years from the original jolly, chubby man wearing glasses to the much slimmer version of today, who has also given up smoking his cigars!

The white figure is screwed on the black base and marked “Made in the USA”.

Reference number: H3521

Status: for sale

Size in inches: 6 by 3 and 1/2 by 2 and 3/8 tall.

Condition: Very good.

Price: $165.00

Comments: This bright red cash box was designed by “Burnett Ltd” of London for children to save money for their “Holidays”, “Birthdays”, “Christmas” and “Rainy Days Mine and Others” around 1935. The box has four slots, four internal compartments and a lock.

“Fry’s” also used this tin to hold their “Assorted Chocolates” and sold it for two shillings in a “Specially Printed Carton”.

Reference number: H2674

Status: for sale

Size in inches: 5 long.

Condition: Good

Price: $490.00

Comments: This brown mohair monkey with felt hands, feet and ears was made around 1930 by “Schuco” to hold a phial of perfume. The glass bottle is still inside with the original paper label, which reads “Fine Extract of LILAC Perfume”. He has a cute face, his arms and legs articulate and his head rotates!

Reference number: H2009

Status: for sale

Size in inches: 5 diameter by 2 and 1/2 tall.

Condition: Excellent.

Price: $550.00

Comments: This biscuit tin was made for “Carr’s” around 1910, it is complete and in excellent condition. It is titled “The Old Game of Sheep in the Corn”, the sides are red decorated with sheep and corn and the lift off lid with a glass top is a puzzle. The idea of the puzzle is to roll the two metal balls; the sheep, into the central red pen area.

Reference number: H4083

Status: for sale

Size in inches: 8 and 1/2 diameter by 3 and 1/4.

Condition: Good, some minor scuffs and dents on the rim and sides.

Price: $120.00

Comments: “Mae Murray”(1889-1965) was known as “The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips”. She rose to fame during the silent film era, her most famous role was opposite “John Gilbert” in the film “The Merry Widow” in 1925 directed by “Erich von Stroheim”.

The image on this beautiful tin is signed by the artist “Henry Clive” (1882-1960) and shows her dressed as Santa Claus. This “Canco” tin is one of the more unusual versions.

Reference number: H3565

Status: for sale

Height in inches: 6, excluding the handle.

Condition: Very good.

Price: $190.00

Comments: This unusual looking square sand pail from “Chein” dates from 1950 . It features four different nursery rhymes, “Humpty Dumpty”, “Hey Diddle Diddle”, “Tom, Tom the Piper’s son” and “Goosey Goosey Gander”? Nice graphics!

Reference number: H791
Status: for sale
Size in inches: Box 8 long. Soaps 3 and 1/2 diameter and 5/8 thick.
Condition: Good.
Price: $88.00
Comments: This box of commemorative soaps was produced in 1937 for the coronation of “King George VI” by “Joshua Margerison & Co. Ltd”. The soaps were produced in the form of an oversized coin with a milled edge in grey, ivory and rose colours. The front has an embossed image of the King and Queen in profile and states “H.M. King George VI and H.M. Queen Elizabeth” around the circumference. The back has a crown above a shield like device that incorporates the date 1937, a Tudor Rose, two thistles and some shamrock, below which it says “Joshua Margerison & Co. Ltd Preston”. The box is in excellent condition except the gold label has a little discolouration. The soaps are in very good condition, unbroken with just a little chipping on edges.
An unusual collectible that has survived unused and intact for over 70 years, which is even more surprising when you consider that for six years during “WWII” soap was in short supply as it was rationed!

Reference number: DH116
Status: for sale
Size in inches: 1 and 1/4 diameter.
Condition: Very good.
Price: $125.00
Comments: “Hakoah Wein” was a Jewish sports club based in Vienna prior to WWII. It was best known for their football team and it produced several Olympic athletes. It was founded by two Austrian Zionists “Fritz Löhrner” and “Ignaz Körner” in 1909, following the doctrine of “Muscular Judaism” proposed by “Max Nordau”. “Hakoah” comes from the Hebrew for “the strength”. Following the anschluss in Austria the club was closed down by the Nazis in 1938.
I purchased this rare medal in Vienna just before the “Hakoah” sports club complex was formally re-opened on the 11th March 2008 in Vienna, seventy years since it was confiscated by the Nazis!