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"OO-LA-LA!!" Vintage Wind-Up "Crazy Car" by The Louis Marx Toy Co. N.Y.C Ca 1930
About the Item
Fabulous addition to the "crazy car" examples made famous by the iconic and "Louis Marx Toy Company" manufacturers of fine quality toys and established in New York City in 1919. This example called "OO-LA-LA" depicts a student driving around haphazardly with a plethora of writings and sayings on his car. Two riders are attached to the boot trunk in the rear and a satchel is attached to the driver side running board. Yale pennants adorn the orange colored wheels.
The toy is in completely all original condition with no repairs, repaint, or touch up of any kind, with colors predominantly red and orange, with a bit of black and yellow, and flesh tones to the face. Often found with a student or two missing from the back, or even worse "not working"; this example is completely intact and works fine (see video attached to the listing). Upon winding up the attached clockwork key attached on the underneath to the rear chassis, plave on a level surface (preferably the floor anfd not a tabletop); upon release the "Whoppee Car" will go backwards and forwards and buck up and down in a haphazard fashion while the driver's head spins around. Markings on the toy include "Louis Marx Co." "I do not choose to roller skate" "She ain't what she used to be" "Better n walking".
Dimensions: 8" long x 3" wide x 5 3/4" high
Provenance: Recently acquired from a prominent West Coast collection of tin toys
Note: After 40 plus years of dealing and collecting toys, I am justly qualified to guarantee and present the authenticity of antique and vintage toys and children's playthings; important considering the fakes and reproductions in the marketplace. I thoroughly examen with a loop and a black light all of my toys that I offer for sale and I guarantee them to be as I have described.
it would behoove an enterprising collector, dealer, or decorator to take advantage of the opportunity to buy as many of the vintage tin toys that I have listed for sale; it would create an immediate quality collection, as most of these toys came, either from a long time premium California collection or from my own shelves. It would take quite some time and effort to accumulate toys this clean, authentic, original, operable and in excellent condition.
See my other listings of over 100+ vintage toys and antique children's toy savings banks from which to chose.
- Creator:Louis Marx and Company (Maker)
- Dimensions:Height: 5.75 in (14.61 cm)Width: 3 in (7.62 cm)Depth: 8 in (20.32 cm)
- Style:Folk Art (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:Tin,Pressed
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:Circa 1930
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Incline Village, NV
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU973245062332
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