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20th century triple singing bird automaton within a cylindrical domed brass cage with carrying handle, 12.75" high

A SCHUCO CLOCKWORK AUTOMATON OF A RUNNING SCOTTIE DOG, 4 1/2" long nose to tail

A Father Christmas Clockwork Automaton, with nicely moulded composition head, arms and boots, wearing a red robe with white trim over a card body, carrying a stick and a sack, on a wooden base, height 72cm (needs attention)

A modern Swiss automaton singing bird cage, with a French porcelain rectangular trinket box (2)

A brass bird in a cage singing automaton, A/F, 5" high

Early nineteenth century Napoleonic prisoner of war work carved bone Spinning Jenny automaton on a two tier base with painted face under bonnet - head and arms move along with rotating spinning wheel when the handle is turned - under glass dome, 10.5cm high

Early nineteenth century Napoleonic French prisoner of war carved bone knife grinder automaton on two tier base with an apprentice who both sharpen their knives on wheels when the handle is turned - under glass dome

Early nineteenth century Napoleonic French prisoner of war carved bone Spinning Jenny automaton on two tier base with lady in bonnet whose head and arms move along with rotating spinning wheel when the handle is turned - under glass dome, 14cm high

A coin operated singing bird automaton, probably French, the bird on a perch in a brass case, repainted wooden base, with floral leaf design, 57cms, (22½"), on French inlaid walnut and stained wood stand, with a brass gallery and appliques, height 80cms, (31½"), (2).

A leather case containing various tin plate toys and automaton`s, together with two boxed children`s teasets View on www.staceyauction.com

A large early automaton in the form of a composition goose with animated neck and bill View on www.staceyauction.com

An automaton clock in the form of a bird in a cage, 6" high

A Swiss cuckoo clock with automaton action

A modern Reuge automaton music box, the oval hinged lid opening to reveal a dancing and tweeting bird, with pierced gilt grill and blue and white overall body, with canted corners and figure decorated panels, in original box with instruction leaflet, height 4.5cm, length 12cm (illustrated)

An album of French WW1 topographical postcards, a Japanese lacquered novelty cigarette dispenser surmounted by an automaton crane (2)

An automaton musical bird cage, late 19th/early 20th century, both birds with coloured plumage (one head lacking), on a circular relief moulded base, 27cm high.

An Art Deco pale pink electric novelty automaton clock, by Vitascope, in a plastic case, 32cm high

A bisque flange-neck doll automaton, modelled as an artist, with a cropped stawberry blonde wig and fixed blue glass eyes, seated on a box base, overall 36cm high, 26cm long; and another doll, (2).

JOHN MALTBY Lady Emma, a pendulum ship automaton. Signed to the back.

An electrically operated pink and white shop window automaton with cats that appear to climb metallic fabric covered poles. With felt eyes and brows. Wood and carton covered with fur fabric, circa 1950

An Automaton figure, and a Jack in a box

Tin plate automaton Charley Weaver bartender

AN OLD FRENCH TIN AUTOMATON TOY OF A WASHER WOMAN by Fernand Martin, 7 1/2" high.

View on www.staceyauction.com A leather case containing various tin plate toys and automaton`s, together with two boxed children`s teasets

20th century birdcage automaton, the domed cage encasing feathered bird, on foliate plinth, with ring-turn carrying handle, 28cm high

20th century bird automaton, in the form of a Sevres style casket, in red leather box

A bird automaton, height 27cms

A NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR BONE AUTOMATON, early 19th century, modelled as a lady wearing a large hat, seated at a spinning wheel, a cat at her side, 5" high, fixed under a glass dome

A French automaton singing bird table clock, circa 1860, central tree and stump surmounted by three birds, central bird on ground head faced down, accompanied by birdsong, driven by movement within base, enamel clock dial with Roman numerals, striking on a bell, Louis Japy movement, glass dome, height 56 cm.

A GILT BRASS AND CLOCKWORK SINGING BIRD, BIRDS IN A CAGE MUSICAL AUTOMATON

"A `Baby Book` tin plate and plush automaton modelled as a standing bear, h. 18 cm, and another, modelled as a bear seated at her ironing "

An early 20thC bisque headed doll automaton, with an egg shape body, with blue satin costume, on a turned bone handle.

A German tinplate clockwork automaton of a train and carriage.

A good mixed lot of vintage and later clockwork toys, including a ping pong automaton, a gentleman grinding metal, a boxed Abto Tpacca car automaton, a boxed Transworld flyer, a drinking panda etc.

An interesting early 19th century hallmarked silver pair cased open face pocket watch, the polychrome enamel dial decorated with a landscape depicting three horses pulling a cart and a windmill automaton, the gilt fusee movement with verge escapement and finely pierced and engraved cock piece signed JN Stone, Aylesbury, hallmarked for London 1836 (hairline and losses to dial) (Illustrated).

A cased clockwork automaton dancing doll, with paper label `Made for Aspreys for the Great Parisian Exhibition 1899`, in working condition

A FINE 19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SILVER AND ENAMEL ‘SINGING BIRD’ AUTOMATON MUSICAL BOX most probably of Swiss origin, having a central domed bird cage enclosing the mechanical feathered bird and pieced gilt metal grill, the rectangular top engine turned and enamelled in blue, the facia with painted cherub vignette and gilt metal mounts, raised on four scrolling gilt metal legs, marked 935 to underside along with other marks, sold with remains of original case. 12cm(h) x 11cm(w) x 7.5cm(d).

Fine Napoleonic French Prisoner Of War automaton having two polychrome decorated straw work platforms, the upper with two seated figures, a dancing blackamore harlequin and partner and a figure with spinning wheel, the lower platform with two soldiers and two ladies flanking an elaborate network of cogs, the handle attached to a pierced and carved foliate panel, 18cm high

An Automaton with two singing birds in brass wirework linnet cage

A GERMAN TIN PLATE AUTOMATON TOY in the form of a walking peacock stamped D.R.G. M. also a wind up toy of a walking lamb and a Japanese wind up toy of an elephant shaking a bell complete with its original box (3)

A Roullet et Descamps Musical Automaton of a Performing Doll, French, circa 1900, as a Spanish dancing girl "Carmen", the Simon & Halbig head with open mouth and teeth, blue glass flirty eyes, brunette wig, standing on a red velvet lined dais, her right hand upheld and swinging a tambourine towards her tilting head, raising her left foot (and her right foot moving left and right), the square base containing a key wound comb and cylinder mechanism, in traditional Spanish clothing with embroidered detail, 51cm high

The Piggy Cook: a battery operated mid 20th century automaton toy modelled as a chef pig with frying pan, pepper pot and flipping egg in original box.

A novelty Art Deco electric automaton mantel clock by Vitascope, with brown patterned bakelite case, and rocking three masted clipper ship in glazed aperture above chrome circular dial, with electric movement, impressed 06723 and with UK, US, Swiss, Belgium and French patent applied for marks

A fine and rare eight-day longcase clock by Thomas Pyke of Bridgwater, Somerset, circa 1790-1830, with an automaton scene of a couple hitting a ball backwards and forwards to each other, the unusual square brass dial has illustrations of the four seasons engraved into the corners, engraved within a decorative ribbon motif in the centre signed THOMAS PYKE, BRIDGWATER, the twelve inch brass break-arch dial with Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals, a seconds ring below twelve o`clock, a half-moon date aperture, and contemporary blue steel hands, within the arch is a wonderfully painted scene showing a gentleman and lady hitting a ball to each other, the ball passes to and fro, as if counting the seconds and quite unusually when the ball meets each racket, the racket moves to hit the ball back again, the mahogany case has a swan neck pediment supported by fluted columns which are in turn surmounted by brass Corinthian capitals, height 217cm., 85 1/2in., width 52cm., 20 1/2in., depth 28cm., 11in. It is believed that the scene portrays the game of Field Tennis, a distant forerunner of Lawn Tennis. It appears that the term "Field Tennis" was first penned by William Hickey in 1767. In his diaries, edited by Peter Quennell in 1978 as The Memoirs of William Hickey he described how "he (a boisterous, hard living attorney) and some friends played this game in London: In the summer we had another club, which met at the Red House in Battersea Fields, nearly opposite Ranelagh, a retired and pretty spot ... This club consisted of some very respectable persons, amongst them were Mr. Powell, of the Pay Office; Mr. Jupp, the East India Company`s architect; Mr. Whitehead, a gentleman of independent fortune; King, the celebrated actor; Major Sturt of the Engineers; and others. The game we played was an invention of our own and called field tennis, which afforded noble exercise …The situation of the house, which was close upon the edge of the river, and no public carriage road near it on the land side, rendered it as private as if it had been exclusively our own … Our regular meetings were two days in each week, when we assembled at one o`clock, at two sat down to dinner ... At four our sport commenced, continuing until dark; during the exercise we refreshed ourselves with draughts of cool tankard, and other pleasant beverage. The field, which was of sixteen acres in extent, was kept in as high order, and smooth as a bowling green … Our club consisted of twenty and was always well attended; any member who absented himself, no matter from what cause, on a dub day forfeited half a crown, which was put through a hole made in the lid of a box, kept under lock and key, and opened only once a year, when the amount of forfeits was laid out in an extra dinner at the Red House, generally about 20th. December ... Besides our regular days, some of the members met every evening during the summer months to have a little field tennis." The game was obviously very popular for some time, and did not, it seems, contain itself as a regional pastime. A passage in the Sporting Magazine (Vol.2 P.371, Sept. 29th 1793) shows its vitality as an open air game: "Field Tennis threatens ere long to bowl out cricket. The former game is now patronized by Sir Peter Burrel; the latter has for some time back been given up by Sir Horace Mann." For a longer, more in depth investigation into these clocks, please see the article: `Automated Field Tennis` by Bob Everitt. (The Tennis Collector, No.32, April 1998, p.8).

A collection of early 20th century oriental wooden automaton ornaments, 200-400

A GOOD GEORGE III MAHOGANY EIGHT DAY LONG CASE CLOCK BY MASON OF LONDON, the brass automaton movement with domed top dial and automaton ship, with silvered chapter ring, subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture, set within a well figured case with column sides, cross-banded door and supported on a platform base. 7ft 10ins high.

A 19TH CENTURY SWISS ENAMEL AUTOMATON BIRD MUSICAL BOX the top decorated with figures and landscapes to each oval panel, unusual sliding back revealing key. Good condition. 4ins wide & 2ins high.

A silver quarter repeating Jacqumart watch with erotic automaton, signed on the gilt cuvette Forestier, Grenadier au 59me, white enamel chapter ring, decorated silver bells and figures, a slide in the case band revealing a couple on a couch, the case plain with push pendant, 60mm dia, circa 1820.

A BRASS HUNTING HORN together with an old lacquered tambourine, four various Venetian masks, a cushion and an automaton theatre (8)

Ebonised and gilded wooden two train Vienna portico mantel clock, the movement striking on a gong, the 5.5" white chapter ring enclosing an automaton gilded centre modelled with an angel at an anvil, supported upon turned circular columns and within a stepped case, 18.75" high

JOHN MALTBY Hip Hip Hooray. Automaton. Signed to the back. 25 x 30.5cm. excluding pendulum. (See illustration)

Tinplate and metal automaton figure of a black boy playing a banjo

Early plastic automaton of a circus elephant ring a bell

Early tinplate automaton figure of a man playing a violin

A singing bird automaton in a cage, 13½" high

Precision Watch Company automaton Palitoy budgie in cage clock

John Maltby (British, b.1936) Peter Grimes and Albert Herring , an Automaton wall piece, circa 1992 Painted wood and mixed media, painted signature Provenance: Private Collection. Exhibited: Rufford Craft Centre, 1992" In good condition Height 20.2cm, Width 30.8cm, Depth 6cm View on auctionatrium.com

A modern silver caddy spoon in the form of a jockey`s hat and further decorative items, including an old automaton black cat.

An early 19th Century North Country English mahogany and cross-banded cased long case clock, the arched hood with turned, ringed and rope-twist decorated pilasters, the main body similarly decorated with triple arched door, the eight day movement with painted arched dial, the spandrels decorated with figures emblematic of the four seasons surmounted by the sun and moon phase automaton, the chapter ring with Roman numerals enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial and gate dial and maker`s name "W M O... STER"

George III eight day longcase clock movement/dial by Richard Reed of Chelmsford, the 12" brass and silvered dial with Old Father Time automaton to the arch, subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture.