Antique Mechanical Wooden Boxing Toy, Presumed Weston Toy Company hand-painted acrobat toy layer upon layer to fit

layer upon layer to fit just exactly so in their custom crate

with a variation on the same used for his hand-drawn and pasted-in book plate just inside

based on my sense of Bone's outlook

Each block measures 2 7/8" cubed

Antique Mechanical Wooden Boxing Toy, Presumed Weston Toy Company hand-painted acrobat toy layer upon layer to fitI've had a few of these old push button boxing toys in the shop, and love them so much I just can't pass them by. I believe this one was made by the Weston Toy Company in Weston, CT, which operated from 1859 to 1899, though there were several iterations of this so I am not 100% certain. When you press the button on at the center of the wooden base, the boxers lean in towards each other to butt heads, causing their arms to swing as well. I especially