An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Antiques and by the 1950s became

and by the 1950s became the most successful toy manufacturer in the world

this early leader aka a nipper or come along

To A Sea Bird (Santa Cruz 1869)

Now a collectors item

The glass eyes are of excellent quality and on his head is a parted crop of brown hair in a side parting

An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Antiques and by the 1950s becameOrigin: Continental, Probably Flemish Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 80 Canvas Height: 13. 5 inches Canvas Width: 17. 5 inches Painted in oils on canvas, the lively composition showing a group of revellers in period dress captured in shock and surprise, fleeing a ghostly masked and cloaked apparition center right, and duly fleeing out of two doors, one at the top of a flight of stairs, is apparently unsigned.