Pre-1940, large mohair animal atop a cast iron frame cart with wooden wheels. The straw stuffed elephant is covered in gray mohair, with white felt stuffed tusks, glass eyes, air-brushed eye and toe detail, and is designed to have a voice box with pull ring (commonly called a 'growler'). The elephant does not retain a Steiff button.

19 x 23 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.

From the Collection of a Gentleman, Cave Springs, Virginia

A similar toy is illustrated and described in "Teddy Bears & Steiff Animals" by Margaret Fox Mandel, p.229.

Ring lacking to voice box; mohair thin and worn in places; tusks have been covered in a plastic material and sewn to the body; wheels with wear and one broken and glued.