Passive Boxer, Antique Push Button Toy Without Button (and Lost Front Toe) embossed bottle --not to retrieve

--not to retrieve

Late 19th century or so I would think

with very very minimal beading loss

The complex was developed by civil war veteran General Marshall Clark Wentworth according to the principles of a “cottage system”

Passive Boxer, Antique Push Button Toy Without Button (and Lost Front Toe) embossed bottle --not to retrieveI'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