411 - Schuco dancing figures “Vater und Sohn” after e.o.plauen, “Acrobates”, clockwork, instructions, box

Schuco dancing figures “Vater und Sohn” after e.o.plauen, “Acrobates”, clockwork, instructions, box Tin and fabric, Schuco dancing figures “Vater und Sohn” (Father and Son), two figures with painted heads and fabric clothing, the father bald with moustache in black waistcoat, red bow tie, white trousers and black shoes, winding opening in the back, the son with black hair in red jumper and black trousers, with key (not original) and instructions “Vater u. Sohn”, “Schuco Akrobaten” with note “copyright 1935 by Ullstein A.G. Berlin”, in the yellow original box “ACROBATES”, “SCHUCO”, function tested, played-with condition commensurate with age, felt slightly stained, wax residue from the tricks on the father's head, box with heavy signs of use, H. 13 cm (figure) “Vater und Sohn” are the picture stories by the cartoonist e.o.plauen (Erich Ohser, 1903 to 1944), published from 13 December 1934 in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung of the Ullstein publishing house; by 1937, 157 episodes and three book editions by Ullstein followed. Schuco in Nuremberg realised the bald father with moustache and his son in the 1930s as a tin dancing figure with clockwork, among others in a variant with drum. The Schuco dancing figure with the two acrobats from the picture story is a pre-war figural toy with clockwork.