Donald Duck Drum Major

#463

1939-1939

In 1939 Fisher-Price introduced a new toy movement design in their Donald Duck Drum Major. Though Fisher-Price had made several Donald Duck pull toys over the years, this is the first to have a moving arm and a baton that really twirls! The same design was used in 1939's #550 or $463-550 Donald Duck Drum Major with cart. Why the cart and non-cart versions were both sold with the same model number is beyond us! Donald twirling a baton was used in several different toys from 1939 to 1948. Some of these toys have a cart, some have a wooden baton, some have paper lithograph baton, but they all look and move basically the same.

Variations: 

• FPT4871 - Rectangular wooden platform that rolls on 4 wooden wheels and has a wooden cut-out Donald Duck on top. The cut-out has paper lithographs on both sides of Donald Duck wearing a white sailor's cap and blue sailor's shirt with yellow trim. Donald has 2 seperate wooden arms with paper lithographs on both sides of blue sleeves and white hands. One arm has an attached wooden baton with a red wooden ball on one end. The arm moves up and down and the baton twirls as the toy is pulled. Marked "W.D.Ent." and "#463-550". 

• FPT4217 - Green rectangular wooden platform that rolls on 4 red wooden wheels, has a green 4-sided wooden cart on the back, and has a wooden cut-out Donald Duck on the front. The cut-out has paper lithographs on both sides of Donald Duck wearing a white sailor's cap and blue sailor's shirt with yellow trim. Donald has 2 seperate wooden arms with paper lithographs on both sides of blue sleeves and white hands. One arm has an attached green wooden baton with a yellow wooden ball on one end. The arm moves up and down and the baton twirls as the toy is pulled. Marked "W.D.Ent" and "#463-550".