You can see he has all the elements of the
crazy clowns with the bobbles on the trousers, the collar-ruff, the pair of
juggling balls, the bobble-hat and the wide tops to the trouser legs (I haven't
the faintest idea what they are called in the fashion trade, but they're like
old cavalry trousers?).
Now I don't think the polymer ones are a
direct copy (I did at the time of the previous post), but suspect both toys are reflecting a specific clown 'suit',
clowns often being registered as unique designs, while more generic or
traditional designs are named within clowning, or wider afield, like 'Pierrot' for
instance, from the commedia dell'arte, but I don't know the name of this one
This near mint example has a little dog;
lacking on previous examples I've seen, although the dog can't reach the peddles
and the clown is too busy with his balls (ooh-err missus!) to get peddling (and
wouldn't reach either, so issues of/with both scale and perambulation!), making a
rather static piece, but charming nevertheless, and would it go well as an additional
item with an actual Crazy Clown Circus!
04-04-2019 - Which are now known to be from Fraser & Glass (F&G).
04-04-2019 - Which are now known to be from Fraser & Glass (F&G).
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