Ebay Auction: Antique Circa 1910 Kenton Cast Iron The YELLOW KID Goat Cart
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Antique Circa 1910 Kenton Cast Iron The YELLOW KID Goat Cart. This is a very rare "Yellow Kid and Goat Cart" cast iron and tin Toy. It was made by Kenton. The Yellow Kid, the goat and the wheels are made of cast iron. The body of the cart is made of tin or pressed steel. It is 7 inches long by 5 inches tall. The toy is complete. The paint on the goat, the cart body, and the cart wheels are in pretty good condition. The Kid still Has much of his Paint.
1895 was the year the first Comic strip star, A bald, grinning snaggle-toothed street urchin who wore a yellow nightshirt and hung around in a ghetto alley filled with equally odd characters, appeared in the New York World. It wasn't until the following year, however, after artist R. F. Outcault took the character to a rival paper, that the multiple-panel technique was used, inaugurating the comic strip as we know it. The Yellow Kid emerged as the lead character in Hogan's Alley Color comic supplements and soon became a huge selling point for the turn-of-the-century newspaper. With the onset of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the Kid vanished, apparently done in by public sentiment against the color yellow, the dominant hue in the Spanish flag.
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Antique Circa 1910 Kenton Cast Iron The YELLOW KID Goat Cart. This is a very rare "Yellow Kid and Goat Cart" cast iron and tin Toy. It was made by Kenton. The Yellow Kid, the goat and the wheels are made of cast iron. The body of the cart is made of tin or pressed steel. It is 7 inches long by 5 inches tall. The toy is complete. The paint on the goat, the cart body, and the cart wheels are in pretty good condition. The Kid still Has much of his Paint.
1895 was the year the first Comic strip star, A bald, grinning snaggle-toothed street urchin who wore a yellow nightshirt and hung around in a ghetto alley filled with equally odd characters, appeared in the New York World. It wasn't until the following year, however, after artist R. F. Outcault took the character to a rival paper, that the multiple-panel technique was used, inaugurating the comic strip as we know it. The Yellow Kid emerged as the lead character in Hogan's Alley Color comic supplements and soon became a huge selling point for the turn-of-the-century newspaper. With the onset of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the Kid vanished, apparently done in by public sentiment against the color yellow, the dominant hue in the Spanish flag.