Figure and an Elephant Pull Toy
American, 20th century: Ideal Walt Disney Pinocchio with original yellow felt hat on composition head, blue bowtie, jointed wood legs and feet, marked "Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.", circa 1940, 19 in., cracking to right side of head at neck and painted surfaces overall, cracking to celluloid and surface of hand, surface wear to neck and brown shoes, exterior of felt hat discolored and worn; unmarked carved and painted figural elephant pull toy, red-painted circus blanket, carved tusks, trunk and tail, four feet, on painted platform with four wheels, 13-1/2 x 17-1/4 x 9-1/2 in., elephant with drying splits and separations to right side of body running diagonalLY across hind quarters, and below neck at top of head between the ears, left ear loose, tail with separations where applied to body, paint losses overall . Provenance: Dr. Jerry Bates Collection, Lexington, North Carolina