An antique Schoenhut animal now....

Schoenhut is an American company who started making wooden musical instruments in the 1870's. They expanded to make wooden toys like circus animals and dolls. A bankruptcy stopped their doll and toy production in 1935.
The animals they produced were jointed with elastic unlike their dolls which were spring jointed.

This is a Schoenhut giraffe.
He looks like had had too much Jack Daniels?
But no....his elastic is shot and needs replacing.

He gets taken apart.
The elastic is held into each leg with tiny nails which need to be removed gently to preserve the original paint and to try to keep the nails re-usable.

He gets new elastic and now can stand upright and even pose in different positions.