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Price ' Love is...The Greatest Feeling You Can Feel '

Kim Casali published a series called "Love is.....' of nude but non-descriptive kids and also as a strip in a.o. The New York Times and Los Angeles Times in the early seventies.
Some were made also in music boxes and are sought by some collectors.
It is said that Kim Casali originally drew the figures to express the love for her husband.
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Item # A 192 004
Origin/Country Japan
Labels/Text Item a Price Import. Copyright 1972 Los Angeles Times. Kim
Year Given 1973
Material Item Gypsum, board bottom cover
Manufacturer Item x
Music Mechanism by LaureL Japan (under foot), BUT...see Misc. Information
Number of Teeth 18, cylinder (Toyo) marked ' 2 1 7 '.
Music/Song x
Dim in " l x w x h 4.5 x 4.5 x 7.0
Box No Information on Box x Est. Origin x Est. Year/Period x Music Mechanism housed in Bottom Distributor Price Import On/Off Switch No Activate Music Turn foot clockwise Weight in Lbs 1.1 Moving Parts Rotates on foot with music On Foot/Pedestal Yes, plastic, ' LaureL Japan ' (see Misc. Information).. Remarks on Condition Good (but see Misc. Information on music mechanism). Misc. Information The foot mentions ' LaureL Japan '. However on opening the bottom it contained a Toyo Japan music mechanism, of which the spring was gone. Replaced the Toyo with a Sankyo Japan mechanism, HOWEVER, the origal cylinder and comb from the Toyo were installed in the Sankyo, thus the tune is still original. Both Toyop and Sankyo had/have plastic governor.


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