A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Railway St

Railway St

The evocative carved and weathered white marble bust showing the head and shoulders of a working class young boy

is worn whenever the Naval Ensign is worn except when a ship is underway

marked to the base Umatoyo

There are no obvious clues as to how the lion died

A Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-mâché Nodding Elephant c.1940-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope Railway StOrigin: 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.