Dying Pig, ca. 1910s

[booksandcheeses.livejournal.com]

Huh.

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[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

This is hilarious to see. One was in an episode of Poirot...I forget which one...someone rigged up a pig and some furniture to make a boobytrap and the sound of the pig confused everyone.

It's Hercule Poirot's Christmas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercule_Poirot's_Christmas).

[siddles.livejournal.com]

I find it hilarious that they quote a price per dozen. I'm imagining someone buying these in bulk for a crazy party!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Totally! I guess it was the screaming goose toy of its day.

[booksandcheeses.livejournal.com]

Reading that Poirot novel is why I looked it up - I wanted to see the toy!

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

oh, well, as long as it's in the most natural manner! :D

[progbear.livejournal.com]

There needs to be an article on these “dying” toys. They were big in the Victorian era, back when “gutta-percha” was still a novelty. Not all of them were the most sensitively conceived items, I have spotted a catalogue page with a “dying Turk” toy in it, and no doubt there were even worse out there (considering some of the other things I have seen in novelty catalogues of the past).