Vintage 1960s NOS Clockwork Tin Boy Drummer Wind-Up Toy 🥁 with Original Box advertising_memorabilia United States of America —

United States of America — and the quiet knowledge that this little piece made the long crossing from Japan to America more than seventy years ago as part of one of the most unusual and undersung chapters in modern industrial history

when you hold a piece of printed ephemera like this

and that reads with particular resonance every October

or handled as a working broom label

blank cream paper with no adhesive and no printing — a reproduction is typically printed on bright modern white stock

Vintage 1960s NOS Clockwork Tin Boy Drummer Wind-Up Toy 🥁 with Original Box advertising_memorabilia United States of America —Wind the Key and a Whole Vanished Toy World Marches Back to Life This is a genuine 1960s clockwork tin wind up drummer boy, complete and unplayed in its original illustrated box New Old Stock, exactly as it left the toy works more than half a century ago. It was made in China for export and carries the model number MS 765, but it is best known by the wonderfully literal English name printed right across the front of its box: "Child Beating Drum."