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A Louis Marx branded parakeet automaton, with a CK Japanese branded dancing merry chimp automaton, 46cm and 33cm high respectively.

A 20th century novelty singing bird automaton in brass cage, boxed, together with another. (2)

A Bontems-type spring-driven gilt metal automaton 'Singing Bird' musical box,decorated with foxes and birds within a scrollwork setting and cherubs to the opening oval lid,10 x 6cm

A Rock Valley Toys automaton dog with reclining plush body, open mouth, and key winder, in working order.

A Smith's Automaton Novelty Alarm clock, with cockerel and chickens and chicks, subsidiary seconds dial, 10cm high; a tin plate bus (2)

A GILT BRASS SINGING BIRDS-IN-A-CAGE AUTOMATON, 26CM H, 20TH CENTURY

A Victorian singing bird automaton in gilt metal cage, H. 30cm.

Vitascope ship automaton clock

An Ingersoll chrome cased Dan Dare pocket watch with automaton arm movement and the Eagle Comics emblem to the back CONDITION REPORT: Will tick and move when wound

Fine George III mahogany longcase clock, maker John Smith of Pittenweem (fl. 1770-1814), the arched thirteen inch enamel dial with automaton frigate, in an oval, above Roman Arabic chapter, seconds dial and arched date aperture, the backplate stamped 'Wilson' the case with swan neck pediment to hood, conch shell and line inlay, on bracket feet, 219cm.

An automaton clock, height with handle 14cm

Early 20th Century Jeweled Enameled Gilt Bronze Singing Bird Box Automaton. Set throughout with oval brilliant cut garnets and pearls. Cobalt blue enamel work. Key drawer with key. Good Working order, Very Good condition. Measures 3-1/2" H x 6" W x 4-1/2" D. Shipping $85.00

An early 20th century composition clockwork Nodding Chinaman advertising automaton:, sitting cross legged, advertising tea, the head with painted and moulded features with felt hat, wearing a printed cotton shirt and cotton trousers, holding a folded packet of tea in his hand, 47cm. high

A Black Forest carved walnut or Linden wood mantel clock, late 19th century, with automaton cuckoo within an ornately carved foliate case in the manner of Beha, 45cm high. (key and pendulum)

A VICTORIAN STYLE AUTOMATON BIRD-CAGE

KAREL LEK oil on board - standing clown with automaton, signed, 67.5 x 51 cms

A vintage bird cage automaton jewellery box with pull out drawer

A novelty bird cage automaton clock, the bird on the cage floor with a globe clock, visible movement beneath, 15 cm, height

§ John Maltby (born 1936), Moby Dick in the Icebergs, a painted wood automaton, the boat in choppy waters with icebergs, signed verso 26 x 31cm (10 x 12in)

§ John Maltby (born 1936), Yachts and Harbour, a painted automaton, with three boats within a harbour to a grey painted background, stamped and titled verso 25½ x 30½cm (10 x 12in)

A Louis Marx branded parakeet automaton, with a CK Japanese branded dancing merry chimp automaton, 46cm and 33cm high respectively.

A 20th century Indian brass automaton clock in the form of a bird cage with birds on clock to centre, movement to underside

A bisque socket head clockwork automaton doll with brown hair, fixed brown eyes, painted composition lower limbs. When wound the doll rocks from side to side, 19cms high, in later dress and under glass dome ++movement works but rather sticky, glass dome cracked

LATE VICTORIAN ORBITAL AUTOMATON BIRD CAGE CLOCKvisible keyless wind movement, orbital style display with Arabic numerals showing hours, the clock modelled as two birds in a brass cage, on bun feet, 17cm high

JOHN MALTBY Peter Grimes Automaton tableau Signed and dated 1977

A brass cased automaton style bird clock

Three 1960s/70s clockwork automaton toys, largest 20cm high.

Triang Topper Toys, Lucy Homemake battery operated dishwasher - 21" x 14" x 13", boxed, a Pixiphone by Playcraft - 23" x 14" boxed and a tinplate and plastic battery operated bartender automaton - 12" tall

LATE VICTORIAN ORBITAL AUTOMATON BIRD CAGE CLOCK visible keyless wind movement, orbital style display with Arabic numerals showing hours, the clock modelled as two birds in a brass cage, on bun feet, 17cm high

LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY GERMAN SINGING BIRD AUTOMATON the 100mm x 70mm x 35mm rectangular lacquered box with small concealed compartment to rear, the hinged gilt cover with cherub and bird decoration in relief revealing a multi-coloured turning, flapping and singing bird, housed within a fitted case with socket for bird shaped winding key

In the style of Bontems, an early 19th century French automaton musical bird cage, having feather bird within a gilded cage, having clockwork key and three position operating lever, stamped 'Made in France', no. 5864751. H: 30cm

An oriental novelty cigarette box with automaton stork 'picker', 14 cm wide

19th Century Continental ebonised automaton clock with alabaster pillars, the enamel and gilt brass dial with Arabic numerals, the two train silk suspension movement driving a figure of a cherub striking on an anvil

Brass Cased Automaton Style Bird Clock

An unusual composition rubber on paper mache Figure, possibly a French Advertising figure or otherwise an automaton figure from a fairground organ, having remains of a green and silver painted finish with facial tones and blond hair. The lower portion of the left arms is absent as are parts of it's feet, 17'' tall approx.

A brass bird cage automaton clock, 6½" high

A late 19th/ early 20th century German gilt metal singing bird box automaton, Cohen J. MUNCHEN, the hinged oval cover opening to reveal a colourful feathered miniature bird within a scrolling fret work surround, the box decorated in relief with male and female figures in a garden, the sides with ribbon tied floral garlands and oval shaped panels of birds, impressed marks, 10.3cm wide x 4cm high x 6.5cm deep.

A vintage Swiss automaton

GREEN LACQUERED LONG CASE CLOCK, 18th century, the brass dial with 11 1/2" silvered chapter ring, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture beneath a moon and sun phase dial with an automaton figure of Father Time, inscribed Wm Andrews, London, on an eight day striking movement, the hood with blind fretwork, arching glazed door with 3/4 columns, the trunk with arched panel and plinth base, the whole with a chinoiserie pagoda scene in relief with gilt painted highlights, height 217cm

A novelty German birdcage automaton clock, inscribed "Kaiser Foreign" and raised on three turned supports, height 13cm. CONDITION REPORT: Some minor pitting to the case commensurate with age. The clock has come from a collection where the gentleman has had them running up until recently.

A clock work singing bird cage automaton, three birds amongst flowers, 31cm high

A Karl Griesbaum (German, 1872-1941), automaton, singing bird in cage, marked to underside. 29cm high. Slight bending to bars and base rim, discolouration to feathers otherwise generally good condition commensurate with age.

A reproduction bird cage automaton, 30cm tall

A reproduction automaton bird cage clock, 23cm tall

A STEINER BISQUE AUTOMATON DOLL UNDER GLASS DOME WITH WHEELS TO BASE, HEIGHT 42CM (LATER DRESS)

Toys- a Dinky Supertoys (514)Guy Van 'Lyons Swiss Rolls' . blue livery, pale blue wheels, Boxed, some age another Bus; a Smith's Automaton Novelty Alarm clock (3)

Cased automaton display of teddy bears mounted on turned supports

An unsual gilt metal, carved paste and polychrome painted singing bird... An unsual gilt metal, carved paste and polychrome painted singing bird automaton with timepeice Incorporating watch movement by Edward Pamer, London, late 18th century and later The watch with gilt full plate single fusee movement with four square baluster pillars, scroll pierced stop iron block and sprung three arm balance, the backplate with fine scroll pierced and chased backcock with the engraved foot flanked by silvered regulation disc with adjacent applied conforming infill opposing signature Edw. Pamer, LONDON, 1173, with circular white enamel convex Arabic numeral dial and gilt arrow hands set into gilt brass case with convex glazed hinged bezel now applied with brass flange to exterior and fitted to the front of an octagonal section plinth-form case containing brass single chain fusee driven singing-bird automaton mechanism with octagonal plates united by four cylindrical pillars operating a multi-note call and powering an automata surmount of a small bird flapping its wings and moving its head whilst perched amongst a gilt flowering shrub with polychrome paste set petals and leaves over a green leaf painted collar to base, the gilt painted octagonal wooden plinth applied with conforming floral finials to the canted corners of the cavetto moulded top over recessed landscape painted panels to sides and rear and floral spray decoration to angles, on cavetto moulded base with brass bun feet and incorporating automata start/stop lever to front edge, (basically 20th century incorporating earlier elements), 20cm (8ins) high; with a circular giltwood stand 24cm (9.5ins) high overall.

A Black Forest carved wood cuckoo table clock Attributed to Johann Baptist Beha A Black Forest carved wood cuckoo table clock Attributed to Johann Baptist Beha, Eisenbach, circa 1870 The wooden framed twin fusee movement with anchor escapement regulated by short pendulum with heavy brass-faced bob, the hour strike train with outside countwheel and linkages to two bellows and a cuckoo automaton who appears from behind the door above the dial to announce the hour with a two-note call followed by hammer sounding on a gong fitted to the inside of the rear case panel, the circular wooden dial carved with a rosette to centre within chapter ring applied with Gothic style bone numerals, with leaf carved and pierced bone hands and narrow moulded bezel, the gabled case with fine bird-in-flight centred vine trail carved fascia over naturalistic facade incorporating cuckoo automata and entwined leafy trail bird inhabited uprights flanking dial, the base with conforming apron set behind a carved and pierced picket fence apron panel applied with further vine leaves and terminating with a horizontal log and squab feet, the sides with small rectangular doors over conforming picket fence, the rear with lift-out panel fitted with a coiled gong to inside surface and applied with incomplete paper trade label for Camerer Cuss, London, 45cm (17.75ins) high. Johann Baptist Beha was born in Oberbrand, 1815 and was trained as a clockmaker by his father, Vinzenz, before setting-up on his own in Eisenbach in 1845. He specialised in cuckoo clocks and through his continuous development became the leading maker of fine and complex examples. His main export markets were to Russia (where he had a distribution warehouse in St. Petersburg) and the British Isles. He died in 1898 leaving the business to be continued by his sons Lorenz and Engelbert.

A burr birch cased table clock The movement and dial by Charles Cabrier, London A burr birch cased table clock The movement and dial by Charles Cabrier, London, mid 18 th century, the case later The five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with verge escapement regulated by short bob pendulum and fine symmetrical foliate scroll engraved backplate, the 6 inch brass break-arch dial with shaped false bob and calendar apertures and shaped signature plate engraved Cha: Cabrier, LONDON to the matted centre within applied Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced steel hands and unusual female mask and scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath subsidiary Strike/Silent dial flanked by conforming mounts to arch, now in a Biedermeier period burr birch veneered case with brass carrying handle and scallop shell carved crest to the ogee shaped line panel bordered superstructure over complex wriggle-cut cornice, the front with conforming moulded decoration to the line-bordered hinged glazed dial aperture flanked by scroll-shaped sides and incorporating stylised scroll inlaid motifs to upper quadrants, the sides with inset break-arch windows, the rear matching the front, on conforming line-bordered generous cavetto moulded base with shaped apron and squab feet, (movement with losses), 52cm (20.5ins) high excluding handle. Charles Cabrier senior was probably a Huguenot immigrant who is recorded in Loomes Brian CLOCKMAKERS OF BRITAIN 1286-1700 as admitted by redemption into the Clockmakers' Company in 1697/8. He is thought to have worked in Lombard Street and had a son of the same name who was apprenticed to him in 1717. Charles junior gained his freedom of the Clockmakers Company in 1726 and possibly worked with his father until the latter's death in around 1736. He served as Warden of the Clockmakers' Company in 1750 and was appointed Master in 1759. Records suggest that Charles junior worked ¾hind the Royal Exchange' and had a son who he also named Charles who was made free of the Clockmakers' Company by patrimony in 1756 and is believed to have worked until his death in 1777. The Cabrier dynasty were fine makers who supplied clocks for various export markets including Russia and France. Perhaps their most famous surviving work is a magnificent pair of ormolu mounted japanned musical automaton table clocks reputedly made for the King of Nepal in around 1770 (illustrated in Barder, Richard, The Georgian Bracket Clock 1714-1830 page 161, colour plate 27). The movement and dial of the current lot were probably supplied with an appropriate case for export to central Europe when first made in the mid 18 th century. The clock would have then been re-cased locally in the early 19 th century in order to 'update' the appearance of clock in the fashionable Biedermeier style which was at its height during the second quarter of the 19 th century.

A late Victorian Automaton. The porcelain shoulder plate head and fore-arms on a kid fabric and wood frame. The whole on two drive and one directional metal wheels. The clockwork mechanism activates arm and forward movement with "MAMA" cry. No marks to head, full height 15", said to be Jules Nicholas Steiner, Paris circa 1890 with "J Steiner" marked on the voice box.

HADDACK & LANSDOWN, BATH: a 19th Century mahogany longcase clock, the painted dial with Adam and Eve mechanical automaton arch, the spandrels painted with exotic figures and having seconds dial and calendar aperture, the inlaid case with fluted gilt capped corinthian quarter column mouldings, 206cm high

A Reuge birdcage musical automaton , made in Switzerland

A clockwork automaton bird cage, brass with two chirping feathered birds within, in full working order. CONDITION REPORT; Available on request. Catalogue descriptions and condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition. Kruger Gibbons Auctioneers offers no guarantee on authenticity or physical condition

A 19th/early 20th Century singing bird automaton in gilt wirework cage, clockwork movement to base, bearing label "Whitchurch, No.10 Carlton Street, near Upper Titchfield Street, Marybone" - H36cm. CONDITION REPORT: movement appears working, dirty especially to interior

A late Georgian oak cased eight day striking long case clock by Charles Stephenson of Congleton The painted arched dial with moonphase automaton to the arch, above painted subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture and twin winding holes, the force bandles hand painted with rustic towers, the hood with moulded and swept arch flanked by plain pilasters, above full length door with inverse top corners, the plain base terminating on a plinth (split to front), together with twin weights, pendulum and winding key, total height approx 212cm. NB: According to the vendor the movement was serviced in the last six months.

Late 19th century Swiss bird automaton with clockwork movement, the cage with suspension loop, 30cm high. Condition Report This is in working order. It is very dusty and requires overhaul. No losses These are normally Swiss. This is unmarked and it is our opinion that it is Swiss, but this is no guarantee.

A 20TH CENTURY AUTOMATON MUSICAL BIRD CAGE, with two birds seated on branches, of circular form, raised on three feet, H 28 cm

An early 20th century French bird in a cage musical automaton, the red bird sitting on a stand with leaves, marked Made in France 5435651, height 11.5ins

A late 19th century bisque socket head doll automaton, marked to the back of the head in red `Deposse Tete Jumeau 4', with fixed brown eyes, closed mouth, a blonde wig, wearing a white dress, holding a gilt bird cage with bird and fruit, when wound she moves her hand holding the fruit up to the bird in the cage who pecks the fruit, on a red velvet mounted square base, af, height of doll 14ins, and with stand 18ins Condition report: when wound the musical box plays and her arm moves up and down, her head moves back and forth, movement is a bit sporadic, start and stop function works, she is broken at the ankles, dress is worn and arms torn so metal frame visible, generally dirty and worn