Summary

Toy clown dressed in a red seersucker jumpsuit with white polkadots. Part of an archive of unsold stock samples donated by the manufacturer.

Jakas Soft Toys was a Melbourne-based company which designed and manufactured genuine high quality soft toys from 1956. Their range included teddy bears, golliwogs, animals and birds. They ceased production in the late 1990s outlasting many local toy manufacturers competing with cheaper overseas imports.

With children's health and safety in mind, the toys were made from wool and synthetic plush, quality fabrics, non-allergic filling and 'safety eyes'. The Jakas range of soft toys came with care and washing instructions and could be handed down for generations.

Physical Description

Thin and floppy toy clown made from white cotton material with red material for shoes and dressed in a loose fitting red seersucker jumpsuit with white polkadots. Its head is made from a cream coloured felt material with two hand-stitched black crosses as eyes, a red material button for a nose and a mouth hand sewn in chain-stitch in red cotton. It has pink fluff as hair on either side of its face and around the back of the head with a bald patch on top of the head. There is a small catalogue booklet attached to the body of the clown with a plastic joiner. There is no 'Jakas Toys' label stitched onto this soft toy.

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