CREME DE LA CREME TWENTY-TWO
By RSL Auction Company
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Mar 5, 2022
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Mechanical Banks, Still Banks, American Tin Toys, American Folk Art, German Antique Toys, and American Cast Iron Toys
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LOT 23:
"Chinese Must Go" Cap Pistol
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Sold for: $800
Start price:
$
500
Estimated price :
$1,000 - $1,500
Buyer's Premium: 27.5%
sales tax: 6.625% On commission only
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"Chinese Must Go" Cap Pistol
By Ives, Blakeslee Company Patented Sept. 2, 1879 - 4.75" Long. Toy collectors have long valued the "Chinese Must Go" pistol as the truest holy grail in the field of animated cap guns. This has nothing to do with rarity because this model (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.
