RARE VINTAGE 1950S JAPANESE MANUFACTURED BATTERY POWERED BARTENDER FACE LIGHTS UP!

A RARE VINTAGE 1950S ROSKO TOYS JAPAN BATTERY OPERATED BARTENDER.  THE FACE LIGHTS UP BUT THE MOVEMENT DOES NOT APPEAR TO WORK. IT STANDS 30CM TALL.
 
The bartender with moulded plastic head with plush beige hair, painted facial features, blye eyes, open mouth with attached moustache, wearing a red faux suede blazer and flower on the lapel, light blue polka dot shirt with bow tie. He has jointed arms terminating in moulded hands, holding a cocktail shaker in his left hand and remnant of martini glass in right hand. He is standing on metal rod legs and black painted shoes, set on a square-shaped polychrome lithopone tin-plate base featuring a bar counter and on/off switch.
 
Maker: Nomura TN Japan, retailed by Rosko Toys. WITH ORIGINAL ROSKO FOIL LABEL. Rosko Toy Company was a US importer of Japanese mechanical and battery operated tin toys. Known to operate 1950s to 1960s.
A brief history of Nomura Toy Industrial Co., Ltd. (T.N) of Tokyo Japan:  
Nomura Toy Industrial Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, also known at TN, was one of the biggest and most prolific of all postwar Japanese toy makers. Nomura is believed to have manufactured toys from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The letters T.N within the diamond logo means that the company is often referred to as TN or Toys Nomura. A wide range of tinplate toys had this logo emblazoned on its boxes whilst its later die cast toys simply featured Nomura toy on their boxes.  
Nomura was an early manufacturer in the tin toy world of Japan. They opened their doors in the late 1940s and quickly dominated the marketplace with colorful, original tin toy vehicles. They produced a wide variety of mechanical and battery (Electromobile) operated toys, military and civilian vehicles, space toys, and novelty items. They are responsible for many Astro Boy and Tetsujin 28 toys. As well as, creating many Robby robot and Sparky robot toys; all were classics.  
By the mid 1970s, like many other Japanese toy companies, it had to make the move into die cast in order to survive.  Their toys designs have even reappeared with the company Masudaya Modern Toys (MT). Nomura continued in one form or another until 1992 when they were bought out by the largest toy company of the time Hasbro.
 
SIZE 29,5CM HIGH 12CM WIDE 12CM DEEP
CONDITION: USED WEAR VISIBLE. FACE STILL LIGHTS UP BUT MOVEMENT DOES NOT APPEAR TO WORK.GLASS REMNANTS VISIBLE.
 
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