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A fine Devon automaton longcase clock, the eight day striking movement with a silvered dial, the open lunette depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with paterae foliage engraved arc, the centre engraved with a view of Plymouth Ho with shipping inscribed John Buttall, Plymouth, the calendar arc with strawberry pointer, Rococo foliage to the corners, the mahogany case with arched hood, foliage carved and dentil architectural detachable pediment with brass finials and brass Corinthian capitals to reeded pillars, the trunk with an arched flame figured door and festoons of foliage to the angled corners, the veneered base on a plinth. 7 ft. 9 in. overall height.

An Austrian musical automaton picture, late 19th Century, after Louis Wain with cats in an interior, faults.

An early 20th century carved and gessoed wood automaton clock, in the form of an Arab smoking, 42cm (14in)

A French automaton musical timepiece, circa 1890, the eight-day movement with tic-tac escapement, short pendulum and white Roman numeral enamel dial, set into naturalistic headland with cottage and windmill surmount beside three-masted vessel on simulated sea swell, the ebonised base containing musical box and movement to drive windmill sails, operated via plungers on left-hand side, restored, lacking dome, 36.5cm high.

French automaton singing bird, in gilt metal cage, on circular base, stamped Made in France. Height 28cm.

A mahogany dwarf longcase clock, the arched hood with swan-neck pediment, urn finials and fluted turned columns, the double ogee arched waist-panel door enclosed by fluted quarter columns on a box base with moulded brick work decoration, the 18cm. arched brass dial with silvered chapter ring and automaton sailing boat to the arch, the twin-train movement striking to a bell, 153cm. high.

An early 20th Century lacquered brass musical automaton as a domed top bird cage with two song birds, embossed frieze, key wind movement standing on three turned feet, height 27cm (please see lot 347 for image)

Automaton 'The Laughing Policeman', metal mechanical inners + composition head, mounted on a wooden base, height 29"

Charles Reuge reproduction Singing Birdcage Automaton, height 12"

A Vitascope electric automaton clock, with rocking ship to glazed aperture above the dial, in light green bakelite case, 31.5cm high.

A 19th century singing bird automaton, in mahogany box with oval lid and floral pierced grille (a/f) 4.5ins

A French musical schoolroom automaton, circa 1900, composed of school teacher with bisque doll's head, possibly Jumeau, clockwork mechanism operates her movement, and six seated school-children, each with bisque head, all within "L'ecole" schoolroom, 15ins wide

A German singing bird in a cage automaton, 20thc. In gilt brass cage. 24cms height.

A German, singing bird in a cage automaton, 20thc. In gilt brass cage. 30cms height.

A smoking automaton by Leopold Lambert, French, circa 1890, in the form of a figure smoking a pipe, the key with pierced initials LB h.56cm.

A late 19th century birdcage automaton, domed brass cage with two singing bird mechanism, 11ins

AN AUTOMATON DOLL Set in a basket weave cylinder, the base with a paper label for Exepition D'art 1897, 12 1/2in. (33cm.) high

A 19th century watermill and singing bird automaton clock, with white enamel dial and French movement with circular plates and outside countwheel set in a galleried turret beneath a basket of flowers, the water mill beneath a cliff top windmill, the scene centred by a lofty tree with singing birds in the branches, on oval ended and waisted ebonised plinth containing the musical movement, 66cm h, c1875. In good and entirely original condition, a little dusty in places, a faint hairline crack in the enamel dial. The automata in fully working order.

A Silver Open Faced Quarter Repeating Verge Pocket Watch with Concealed Erotic Automaton, Continental, circa 1820, engine turned silvered dial with Roman numerals, applied repousse Jacquemart figures appearing to strike two bells, full plate gilt fusee movement with plunge repeat, gilt cuvette, the centre with a sprung and hinged panel concealing erotic automaton, plain silver case, {57mm diameter}

A pair of 19th Century rod operated automaton musicians depicting a man playing the cymbals and a lady playing the guitar, of wood and composition construction with costumes and seated under glass domes, 37cm all in.

A Japanese wooden automaton monkey, eating a fruit, 4 1/4" high (10. 5cm)

An early 20th Century embossed brass musical automaton as two songbirds in a circular domed wirework cage, height 28cm.

A mahogany longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack-strike on a bell, the painted square dial with Roman numerals, Arabic five-minute divisions and moonphase automaton, painted and gilt with floral spandrels, the case with shaped door, plain fluted pilasters, the hood with swan-neck pediment, 221cm high, (damage and losses to case)

A late 19th/early 20th century bird cage automaton, the domed brass cage housing two brightly feathered birds with naturalistic foliate branches, attention needed to mechanism, 11 ins

A George III ormolu quarter chiming and repeating table clock, by J.H.Borrell, London, surmounted by waterfall automaton feature, clock with enamel dial, twin-fusee movement, further fusee and chain powers musical and automaton work, engraved backplate, on scroll supports with gridiron pendulum, rotating on giltwood plinth, 25ins high

A rare early 19th century French silver open face quarter-repeating pocket watch with concealed erotic automaton, circa 1820, French movement with pierced bridge cock, polished steel end-piece, and silvered regulation dial, repeating the hours and quarters on gongs, the four-piece case with plunge pendant for repeat, engine-turned covers and a cuvette with a small hinged cover concealing an erotic automaton depicting a copulating couple, white enamel dial with black Arabic numerals, key-wine aperture and original blued-steel baluster and lozenge hands, 5.75cm diameter (2.25 in), (a crack to the dial and a later perspex 'glass')

An Osmonds Patent Automaton Caddy, with canvas bas (initialled)

A 19th/20th Century Clockwork Automaton, dancing black women, Millikin & Lawey, The Strand, London, (a.f.) 16 cm (See lot 693 for illustration).

An Automaton bird decorated in green and brown with tin plate beak and legs, with hopping action.

A 19th century oak longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack-strike on a bell, the painted and arched dial with Roman numerals and Arabic five-minute divisions, date aperture, subsidiary seconds dial and inscribed In. Darke Barnstable, the arch with ship automaton, the plain case with fluted pilasters, the hood with broken pediment, 209cm high, (worn and over-painted dial, replacement automaton)

A pine longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with rack strike on a bell, the arched and painted dial with Roman numerals, Arabic five-minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture and inscribed C. Boney Padstow, the arch with an automaton representing Adam and Eve, the plain case with a rectangular door applied with a lozenge boss, the domed hood with two small flamiform finials, 207cm high, (suspension of pendulum broken).

J E Armson, Leebrooks; a 19th century mahogany North Country longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with rack-strike on a bell, the arched and painted dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and date dials and inscribed J. E. ARMSON LEEBROOKS, the arch with moon-phase automaton, the figured case with lancet door and canted corners, the hood with broken pediment, 227cm high

A battery operated Tinplate 'Charley Weaver' Bartends automaton 30cm high.

A 20th century singing bird automaton, the red and yellow birds perched amongst foliage and in brass cage below glass dome, the brass plinth with beaded and floral bands and containing the clockwork mechanism

A GILT METAL & GREEN ENAMELLED CLOCKWORK AUTOMATON MUSICAL BOX, of rectangular shape, the top with foliate scrolls, having a central oval hinged lid enclosing a mechanical singing bird with brilliant plumage rising from a pierced foliate scrollwork plate, with the sides with green and white enamelling. 4" x 2.5". Height 1.75".

Reproduction brass cased musical box birdcage automaton 8.5" height.

A HANDMADE WOODEN AUTOMATON 'Schooner House', depicting Captain Tombat, S.S. Kidwelli

A German bisque dolls head, adapted on a later automaton base. 39cm.

A late 19th century brass automaton ship desk timepiece, the revolving barrels with a circular timepiece and aneroid barometer, flanking a pair of funnels, one with a thermometer (no tube), a wheel and copper railings, the sides with port holes and hooks for anchor and keys, the propeller disconnected, 16.5in (42cm) long, on a wooden plinth.

Automata; a double singing bird automaton; the two birds with red and yellow plumage with moving heads, beaks and tails, perched on small branch in domed brass cage with circular floral embossed base, in glass dome on ebonised wooden base. Activated by winder under base-in good working order, 14in, twentieth century

A George III Mahogany Longcase Clock, signed Jas Cawson, Liverpool, circa 1780, inlaid case on shaped bracket feet, rectangular panel to the plinth, shell motifs, flame veneered shaped trunk door flanked by reeded inset columns, hood with swan neck pediment above glass insets, reeded columns, 13 inch brass dial, silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, inner date ring with corresponding central date hand, the painted arch with automaton rocking ship, four pillar movement with anchor escapement, rack strike on a bell, (240cm high)

A late 19th century automaton musical box, the hinged cover revealing a pierced gilt metal screen and a feathered 'singing' bird, the bone and ivory case carved overall with figures in 17th and 18th century costume, on four ball feet, 12cm wide (4.75")

A gold-mounted lacquer box with automaton miniature, discharge mark of Julien Alaterre, Paris, 1768-1774, with poincons de la Maison commune, circular, the lid inset with a miniature of a young lady with pivoting arm holding a mask, the movement activated by swivelling the bezel, stamped gold ribbon frame and mount, the box of olive green lacquer lined with tortoiseshell diameter 8cm, 3 1/8in

A FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AUTOMATON, the geared mechanism between rectangular plates surmounted by a lady wearing a large bonnet, 109mm, (4.25in) (incomplete)

A clockwork automaton pig with pink material covering, a wooden cart and horse with various accessories, a Pin-Tung block set and various other toys.

A late 19th Century automaton tiger, possibly by Roullet et Descamps, with composition body and articulated head with glass eyes and moving lower jar, standing upon a large wooden circus ball, (repainted). 31cm high.

A clockwork automaton bird in a cage, the chromed brass cage surmounting the figure of a bird perched in foliage, the circular brass base stamped with concentric bands of decoration, height 27.5cm.

A six inch polyphon disc musical box with a later (?) automaton cat theatre to the lid, showing two kittens on a see-saw, and eleven discs, 19cm wide

A French Singing Bird Automaton, circa 1920, as a bird with real feathers and moving head, beak and tail, on a perch within a domed cage, on a base embossed with floral entrelac band, 30cm high over ring for suspension.

John Wright, Linton. An automaton oak longcase clock, the break arch hood above conforming trunk door raised on a rectangular plinth, the 12 inch arched silvered dial landscape-painted to the arch with two rocking figures on a sea-saw, above silvered chapter ring and well-engraved centre, seconds and calendar dials, gilt rococo spandrels, with four pillar bell-striking movement, (case probably associated) 200cm high

A German plaster and painted nodding automaton, circa 1900, modelled as a town crier, h.57cm

A late 19th century German 'whistling' carved wood automaton figure of a tramp with swivel head, the clockwork movement with bellows, 13.5in high; a set of marbles; a Chad Valley jig saw puzzle 'Big Bad Wolf'; and a small oval copper kettle. (4)

An Alps RVP Japanese battery Automaton of a Black Bear drinking a bottle of Pepsi Cola on semi circular tin plate lithographed base. 24cm high.

A brass musical automaton modelled as a cage with two birds, with label to reverse, 'The Merry Music Box', 28cm

A 19th century oak and mahogany longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack-strike on a bell, the 13in. painted and arched dial with Roman numerals, Arabic five minutes divisions, and subsidiary date and seconds dial, painted with fruit spandrels, the arch with automaton moonphase, indistinctly inscribed GEO: GOODALL TADCASTER, the case inlaid with panels of urns and geometric foliage, the hood with fluted columns and broken pediment with ball finial, 234cm high

A 19th century oak and mahogany inlaid longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack-strike on a bell, the painted and arched dial with Roman numerals, date aperture and subsidiary seconds dial, decorated with spandrels of rustic buildings, the arch with moonphase automaton, the case with shaped door, the hood with fluted columns, swan-neck pediment and three ball and eagle finials, 225cm high

Stewart, Glasgow, a George III mahogany longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on a bell, the 13in arched brass dial with Roman numerals, Arabic five minute divisions, subsidiary seconds and date dial, foliate spandrels and inscribed STEWART, GLASGOW, the arch with moonphase automaton, the line-inlaid case with spirally fluted pilasters, the hood with similar pillars and broken pediment, 216cm high

Bartley & Eggert, Bristol; a late George III mahogany and line-inlaid longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack strike on a bell, the 13in. painted dial with automaton arch and with Roman numerals, Arabic quarter-hour divisions, seconds and date subsidiary dials, the corners painted with spandrels of coronets, the arch with an automaton of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the case with two gilt-metal-capped pilasters, the hood with similar columns and a swan-neck pediment, 218cm high (restored)

A 19th century mahogany longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack-strike on a bell, the painted 14in. dial with Roman numerals, painted moon-phase automaton and subsidiary seconds dial, decorated with floral spandrels, the case with fluted pilasters and shaped door, the hood with brass-capped columns and broken pediment, 217cm high

A George IV mahogany longcase clock, the eight-day two-train movement with anchor escapement and rack-strike on a bell, the arched and painted 14in. dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary date and seconds dial, painted with spandrels of figures representing the Continents, the arch with a moonphase automaton, the case with shaped door and a pair of Corinthian fluted pilasters with gilt-metal bases and capitals, the hood with a pair of similar columns and swan-neck pediment with ball finial, 225cm high