19th C. Althoph Bergmann Camel and Rider Tin Toy folk art hooked rug or animal of any sort

or animal of any sort really

Signed on the underside of the base

crisp and clean and with no real signs of use

I found this painted wood sculpture of a seal or sea lion balancing a ball at the estate sale of an artist

19th C. Althoph Bergmann Camel and Rider Tin Toy folk art hooked rug or animal of any sortI am pretty certain this camel once stood on a base with wheels so that it could roll along, but it appears to have lost its ride a long time ago! I am 99% sure if was made by Althoph, Bergmann & Co, an early American tin toy maker based in NYC, and believe it dates to the 1880s or so. A string knotted around one leg of the camel helps to holds the two halves of it together (the seam is still joined along the top of the head and hump, but not the