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Coin-Operated Double Singing Bird Automaton, probably Bontems , one bird with red / green plumage, moving beak and tail, the other with iredescent blue plumage, in papier-mache landscape with tree, on giltwood and gesso base with coin chute and going-barrel movement with bellows causing the first bird to sing and the second to bob, on a turned and ebonized stand with coin-drawer, ht. 53 in.


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Auctioneer:
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Date:
2007-03-24

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