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Mariner Orchester Fantastic marine orchester with 3 musicians. Great animation with sound system. Head and fingers sculptured from wood. built for eternity by famous swiss automaton builder Paul Zwahlen from Yverdon. All figures have head, eye and arm/finger movements. Original cost over $ 20'000 (FR) Dimensions: 1,20 x 1,10 x 0,80
Girl at the Piano by LAMBERT or RENOU Creation by LAMBERT or RENOU. Small mechanical automaton depicting a young woman playing the piano. Head movements, porcelain, and hands of the young woman. Music box. Mechanism housed in the body of the piano and the character key for winding on one side of the piano. Good original condition, first half of the twentieth century. 3 movements(CH) Dimensions: 0,46 x 0,40 x 0,30
The dance lesson ROULLET-DECAMPS Rare automaton by ROULLET AND DECAMPS. Mechanical automaton on a pedestal with a female in porcelain head with mouth open, and her dancing doll standing on a small table. Head and arm movements, while the doll turns by itself. Music box. The mechanism is housed in the base wound by key on the side. State of origin, circa 1890. Iconographic Reference: "The golden age of automata" by Christian BALLY 3 movements, very nice conditon (CH) Dimensions: 0,50 x 0,18 x 0,13
Fairground Organ with accordion boy automaton One of a kind fairground organ by Belgian organ builder Albert Flahaut. Interesting combination with the accdordion boy automaton. The organ has 92 key , snare and bass drum and a bandmaster. In very nice condition. The little boy moves and plays the accordion. Comes with an endless wheel of cardboard music. Very visual instrument for an amusement park or museum. Attention: There will be VAT charges of additional 21 % for buyers in the European market, which is of course recoverable for VAT registered companies. BE Dimensions: Organ: 200 x 120 x 220 cm Accordion boy: 85 x 75 x 150 cm
A Swiss ¾lls in sight' automaton music box, Picard-Lion, Geneva A Swiss ¾lls in sight' automaton music box, Picard-Lion, Geneva, late 19th century, the mechanism playing a choice of ten airs via an 11 inch pinned brass cylinder and tuned steel comb with additional accompaniment on six bells played in pairs by one of three seated figures in Oriental dress, the mechanism driven by single crank-wound spring drum mounted on gilt iron bed with tune indication sector beneath hinged glass internal cover with CHANGE/REPEAT and STOP/PLAY selection levers to right hand side, the lid pasted with hand-written tune sheet within lithograph landscape decorated borders centred with a pair of figures in traditional Swiss Alpine dress to foreground, the lower margin inscribed PICARD, LION, EDITEUR, GENEVE, the exterior with musical trophy marquetry decoration within line-strung borders to lid and cast brass handles to the grained sides, on ebonised squab feet, 58cm wide.
A 19th Century Swiss silver gilt and enamel 'Singing Bird' automaton box, the movement with brightly feathered bird, with head, wings and tail movement, in shaped rectangular silver gilt case with lid enamelled with an oval cartouche of swans within an alpine scene, engraved overall with leaf and floral ornament within tongue pattern border, 98mm wide x 63mm deep x 36mm high, contained in burgundy leather gilt tooled fitted case Note : Convention marks struck to edge of case
Industrial brass and chrome automaton lighthouse clock, the rotating multi-dial chrome case top with 2" gilt engine turned clock dial signed DEP, 2.75" silvered aneroid barometer dial and two silvered thermometer scales, within a pierced gallery and upon a tapered base over a black marble base, surmounted by a turned brass finial, 17.5" high
Good French ormolu and bronze automaton two train mantel clock, the movement with outside countwheel striking on a bell, the 3" silvered dial signed Kingston, Hull inset into a crenellated castle turret supported upon a rocky outcrop over an automata three masted sailing ship below, over a stepped cast base housing the automata mechanism, 21.5" high (pendulum and two keys)
BISQUE HEAD AUTOMATON DOLL interesting doll with a bisque head with fixed blue eyes and open mouth, original clothing, wooden limbs and a wooden construction in the centre which when held moves the head forward and brings the hands together. Marked, 179, 2/0. 15 1/2ins (39cms) high (to top of hat)
A Victorian automaton diarama, with oval mechanical music base having clockwork music box supporting a painted scene of ship at sea and craggy outcrop with two houses below a windmill, the ship and windmill sails moving, the broken glass dome with painted seascape, total height approx 35cm unfortunately there is a large crack running from front right up and around to left side of dome
A mid 19th Century Swiss silver gilt and enamel 'Singing Bird' automaton box, the fusee wound movement with brightly feathered bird, with head, wings and tail movement, in shaped rectangular silver gilt case with lid enamelled with an oval cartouche of swans within an alpine scene, engraved overall with leaf and floral ornament within tongue pattern border, 10mm x 62mm x 36mm overall, contained in burgundy leather gilt tooled fitted case Note : Convention marks to edge of case

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