A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope She did not think it

She did not think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself

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comically outsize arms for reaching faraway limbs

this is a very tactile

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A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope She did not think itOrigin: 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.