A German Tinplate Clockwork ‘Jolly Clown’ c.1920 sub-Curios This fine quality dish would

This fine quality dish would essentially have been an expensive souvenir at the fair in Boston where it was inscribed 18 years after it was actually made in 1875 in Edinburgh

The Asylum Rule Book stated the following:“There be at least one attendant for every ward and that there be not less than one attendant for every 25 patients who are tranquil or convalescent and not less than one attendant for every 12 patients who are dirty

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They lived at West Hendon House in Sunderland

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A German Tinplate Clockwork ‘Jolly Clown’ c.1920 sub-Curios This fine quality dish wouldOrigin: GermanPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1920 30Height: 6. 75 (at maximum)Width: 3Depth: 3The charming mechanical toy in the form of the head and shoulders of a laughing clown wearing a Pierrot hat with red pom poms to a red and black painted face and ruff with black chequered suit, the whole being flat lithographed and mounted on a clockwork motor operating a cam which moves the mouth and head in a jaunty manner and surviving from