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Description:	A charming hand puppet by textile designer Trude Neu. This Clown character is handmade and has a fabric body, wooden hands and feet and a hand painted wooden head and hat. Although she was a textile designer Trude Neu also designed toys, often using her own fabrics. Trude Neu was born in Germany in 1912 but left for Northern Ireland in 1939. She studied textile design and painting at the Belfast Academy of Art during the 1940's. She worked as a textile designer and her curtain fabric designs were exhibited at the "Britain Can Make It" exhibition in London in 1946.
Identifying Marks / Makers Marks:	This puppet is unmarked but is in the same style as the other Trude Neu puppets I have for sale, some of which are complete with their original paper label. You can see the thread on the back of the puppet which would have held the paper label. All the puppets I have for sale were from the same toy collection and were purchased together.
Age / date of manufacture:	1940's.
Size:	Measures 16 1/4" (41.25 cm) long from the tip of the hat to the foot and is 12 3/4" (32.4 cm) wide measured from hand to hand.
Condition:	In good original vintage condition. The wooden head, hand and feet are in good condition. The fabric is in good clean condition with no rips or holes. Please see the photographs.