A Late 19thC Painted Treen ‘Disappearing Ball’ Magic Trick c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage particularly those depicting cats and

particularly those depicting cats and dogs

the teddy bears with buttons in their ears (‘Knopf im Ohr’) are manufactured in an architecturally revolutionary factory building in this small town 32 km north-east of Ulm

after the quarter is inserted

someone vain

Based in what is now part of the Czech Republic the company produced these figures until 1948

A Late 19thC Painted Treen ‘Disappearing Ball’ Magic Trick c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage particularly those depicting cats andOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 4 Diameter: 2 The delightful antique treen conjuring trick, formed as a turned wooden pedestal cup being bee hive turned to a knop finial, painted in vibrant yellow, to a pressed metal interior concealing a red internal ball which appears and disappears through sleight of hand mechanics, whilst the second interior houses the half red painted ball; the whole with a