Manufacturer/Distributor: Richard Appel, New York.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Appel Blossom Face Cream” is a milk white jar of supposed face cream, but when the user opens the jar a spring snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Avon Jar” is a joke that was probably home-made. Someone took a real Avon jar and put a spring snake inside it so that when someone opens the jar the snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good.
Description: “Camera” looks like a miniature box camera, but when the shutter is depressed a spring snake pops out of the lens.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – snake has some tears.
Description: “Flashlight” is a fake flashlight that when you open it to put new batteries in, a spring snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Franco-American.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – label damaged.
Description: “Franco’s Red Raspberry Jam” is a jar that looks like raspberry jam, but when you open it a spring snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – label damaged.
Description: “Home Made Strawberry” looks like a real jar of strawberry jam, but when you open it a spring snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good.
Description: “Lighter” looks like a real lighter until you press the lever to use it at which time a snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – box scratched and bowed.
Description: “Old Gypse Cards” is a box that looks like a deck of cards with a slide out insert. When you pull the insert out to get the cards a spring snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – label damaged, cap rusted.
Description: “Princess Rose Strawberry Jam” is a fake jar of strawberry jam that has a spring snake inside. The snake pops out when you open the jar.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – snake is damaged.
Description: “Radio” is a fake old time radio and when you turn the dial on the front a spring snake pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1924.
Condition: Very good – minor soil on box, cardboard that holds the toilet is torn.
Description: Item # 509. “The Original Receiving Set” is a gag box with a metal Tootsietoy toilet inside as the gag. This item was made as an advertising item for Camden Pottery Co., Camden, New Jersey.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Bengor Products Co. New York, New York.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – top of box missing, some rust on camera.
Description: “The Wonder Camera” is a real-looking camera, but when you press the shutter a spring mouse pops out.
Manufacturer/Distributor: Shackman, New York.
Country of Origin: Japan.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “What I Know About Women” looks like a book with a sleeve, but when you remove the book a spring snake pops out.
