Zebras

The Zebras The zebra, introduced in 1906, fits the Teddy Roosevelt sets better than the circus. Zebras were not very good performers. Sometimes they were trained to pull wagons. Six designs are known - two with glass eyes, one painted eyes, one decal eyes, one reduced painted eyes, and one reduced decal eyes.
Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Jim Kramer Open mouth, glass eyes All zebra were made with leather ears and a woven cord tail. The neck in the glass eyes style is a separate piece.	Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Jim Kramer Closed mouth, glass eyes The closed mouth style differs from the open mouth only by the mouth design. Both glass eyes styles have a white cloth mane.
Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Jim Kramer Painted eyes The head was changed completely for the painted eyes design. It was molded as one piece. The cloth mane is gone along with the separate neck piece. No open mouth PE zebra is known. This is the "flat-head" version of the PE zebra. These are rarer than the rounded head version.	(Need photo) Decal eyes The latest, and perhaps the rarest zebra is the decal eyes version shown here. Otherwise, the head and body design is the same as the painted eyes.
Photo by Judith Lile Reduced size, painted eyes The reduced zebra is found only with closed mouth.	Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner Reduced size, decal eyes This reduced zebra has applied decal eyes. Cost savings apparent wherever they could get away with it. Photo by Jim Sneed from the collection of Susan Turner