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Description: | A descriptive label on the reverse reads: 'This is Li Li Chang/ In the tenth month of the last year of Kang Hsi, Li Chanl went to a sale at the Heng Hsun Pawnbrokers in the West City (Peking). He bid for a copper watch - 4 dollars - and the pawn broker sold it to him. When he got home and examined it, behold it was gold and he polished it up properly, and sold it for more than 40 dollars - a thousand per cent profit. Later, he had such good luck at sales that people asked him to bid for them, and when he died they even took his image - like this - to bring them luck. If you do likewise, great good fortune will be yours.'
Li li chang, standing figure with composition head and hands and colour printed paper clothes, mounted in a glass fronted cardboard box. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Toys Social history China Dolls and Toys | Temporal: | 1900 - 1950
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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