19th C. Althoph Bergmann Camel and Rider Tin Toy carved hangingframe though he was certainly much

though he was certainly much loved for a good bit of his long life

I'm not sure if it was a kid or an artist who made it (it is signed S

the fact of its extreme closeness

As I've written before

from the wavy lines detailing feathers to those rather crudely painted talons to the orange branch and green swath below

19th C. Althoph Bergmann Camel and Rider Tin Toy carved hangingframe though he was certainly muchI am pretty certain this camel once stood on a base with wheels so that it could roll along, but it appears to have lost its ride a long time ago! I am 99% sure if was made by Althoph, Bergmann & Co, an early American tin toy maker based in NYC, and believe it dates to the 1880s or so. A string knotted around one leg of the camel helps to holds the two halves of it together (the seam is still joined along the top of the head and hump, but not the