Bidders advised to look out for reproductions

Papier-mâché pull-along models of bulldogs and terrier with nodding heads and growling mechanisms were popular amusements in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras – but it seems not all of the examples seen on the market today are quite so old.

This example offered at auction in February, was catalogued as "a French papier-mâché growling bulld…

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