Sherlock Holmes figurine. [Japan: ca. 1940s-1950s]. A rare and unusual rubber-latex compound [?] figurine of Holmes, with hand-painted features (gray deerstalker hat and suit, black shoes, pipe, cravat, and facial features, and Caucasian skin-tone for the face). Comes with a silver-painted cardboard magnifying glass with a metal handle. There is no concrete information about this strange item, but it is supposed that it was cheaply produced with materials available to artisans in postwar Japan.