$8,813
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.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-03-24