Passive Boxer, Antique Push Button Toy Without Button (and Lost Front Toe) double exposure With black painted head and

With black painted head and split tail

with a light colored vein in the black stone creating a perfect ring around the neck of this graceful seal

Note there is some reflection visible in the photos

but am certain these are well more than a century old

) Very sweet

Passive Boxer, Antique Push Button Toy Without Button (and Lost Front Toe) double exposure With black painted head andI've found a couple similar to this mechanical boxing toy over the years, made I believe by the Weston Toy Company, Weston, CT, which operated from 1859 to 1899. The others featured two boxers going at each other, but this is the first I've seen with just one and a punching bag opposite him instead. The push button at the center of this one is missing someone handier than I could surely fashion a new one, and the rest of the mechanism is still in good