Object Description
The turn of the century period male vent figure by Alfred LeMare, of particularly large proportions and in 100% original condition, with five operating mechanisms to animate the lips, mouth, and eyes, with defunct ear smoker/squirter, the head stick travelling to the bottom board of the body, in the original black formal suit with plum bow-tie, white buttoned shirt and black faux buttoned shoes, the head having short to medium length brown curled and felted hair, blushed cheeks and thick eyebrows, the eyes blue and the body constructed of a combination of paper maché, and wooden composition parts with the carved wooden hands painted in a light skin colour and the whole surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century.