A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The mechanism to the eyes

The mechanism to the eyes is operational and the eyes themselves are in good order

comically outsize arms for reaching faraway limbs

Railway St

These rings date from Roman times

This is part of the charm here and we’d be a little horrified if the upholstery was deemed for change as it has much age and quality to it

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The mechanism to the eyesOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c.. 1940 60Height: 22Width: 34Depth: 12 (all at extremities)The most likely unique and most certainly charming large hand painted model of a stylised elephant at almost three feet long, with a nodding weighted head, the whole black painted with brown highlighted feet and ivory painted tusks, and with wooden soles to its feet, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century.