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Photo by Jim Sneed from the collections of Jim Sneed
This is the entirety of my current collection of Scarey Anns. I am
looking for a few more special ones. Let me know if you have a nice one
for sale.
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Halloween characters were a popular theme of the company. This
beautiful Scarey Witch still retains her wooden nose. Both her nose
and her hat animate when the lever is moved.
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This Scarey Clown also retains his red nose. It and his hat move in a
comical way to the movement of the lever.
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This is one of the few known Scarey cartoon characters - Happy
Hooligan. Only his hat is animated.
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Scarey Anns come in a great variety of characters. Shown here are,
from the left, the porter, policeman, chinaman, Ann, and a sailor.
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And here are another sailor, a yellow Ann, the chinaman, the
professor, and the pumpkin man.
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Scarey Anns come in two distinct versions:
those with fixed arms and those with swinging arms. The swinging arms
version seem to be rarer.
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This is the very rare porter. Note the swinging arms. His head goes
up and down.
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 The chinaman is known in both swinging and fixed arms versions
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This is the professor. His hat rim is missing and his go-tee is
missing.
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The
Policeman is one of my favorites.
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All Scareys have a lever in its back that
control movement of its head, or nose, or hair, or hat.
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The
Pumpkin man's metal hat goes up and his nose goes down with level
action.
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The
Sailor must have been a popular figure. Hat and nose move.
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The
Scarey Ann come in many color varieties. The early ones were all hand
painted.
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Later
Anns were painted using a stencil for the flowers on her dress.
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This is the only "left looking" Ann I have
seen. Must be very rare.
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This is the fixed arm Chinaman. The hat and queue move with level
action.
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This sailor's paint design is different from the one above.
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