The RSL Auction Company is excited and pleased to announce a two-day CREME DE LA CREME: THE SINGER AND KIDD COLLECTIONS sale which will be held Saturday, December 3, 2022, and Sunday, December 4, 2022. The sale will include fantastic selections of Toys, Still Banks, and Mechanical Banks from the 50-plus-year collections of Frank and Joyce Kidd, Ed and Naomi Singer, and Alvin Goldstein. The 40-year Doorstop collection of Mr. John Oppenheimer will be sold as well.
The RSL family has known the three bank and toys consignors since the early 1980s and considers them lifelong friends and mentors. Frank, Joyce, Ed, and Alvin share a passion for collecting antique toys and banks and are eager to see their collections spread to future generations of collectors.
We are truly honored to have been selected to sell these four world-famous collections.
The December 3, 2022, portion of the sale will include about 240 Still Banks (all types, excluding architectural) and 175 Mechanical Banks (bank patterns and prototypes.) The December 4, 2022, portion of the sale will include 150 Architectural Still Bank lots, 55+ Doorstop and paperweight lots, 200 Cast Iron Toy lots (horse-drawn, automotive, motorcycle, airplane, and cap guns), with about 40 American and European Tin, Clockwork or Windup Toys.
LOT 520:
"Chinese Must Go" Cap Gun
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Sold for: $500
Start price:
$
400
Estimated price :
$800 - $1,000
Buyer's Premium: 27.5%
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"Chinese Must Go" Cap Gun
By Ives, Blakeslee Company. Pat. Sept. 2, 1879 - 4 3/4" Long. Toy collectors have long valued the "Chinese Must Go" gun as the truest holy grail in the field of animated cap guns. This has nothing to do with rarity because this mode (No. 95) by the Ives Company was wildly popular with children. As such, many copies were produced. The toy draws its tragic socio-cultural racial themes from the growing fear of the chinaman; an exotic outsider seen as another imminent danger upon the safety of the American lifestyle. This irrational belief system came to be known as "yellow peril" in the press. The Caucasian man gives the Chinese man a swift kick in his butt. He further taunts and ostracizes the innocent Asian man by pulling his long braided queue.
Condition: Pristine Condition with Box Original. Box with no Label.
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