The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 528
e, the only difierence being that the dolls are separate, and worked with twostrings instead of one. The figures are knights in complete armour^ with swords MODEL WRESTLERS, 523 and shields. They are hung close together, so that the swords are crossed, and theheels are loaded to keep them upright.… … THE WRESTLING DOLLS. Other, and any motion forward is balanced by one backward, and a most realisticencounter can be fought out almost automatically. With the substitution of thin cap wire for the thread an excellent marionette orshadow show could be easily arranged, it being much easier to work…
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