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Singing Bird Clock Automaton by Bontems http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2314/lots/388

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$4,113

Singing Bird Clock Automaton by Bontems, the two-train movement by Japy Freres , Roman dial, gilt-brass bezel and countwheel strike on bell, in rocky papier-mache landscape with irredescent beetles, verdure, foliage, glass-twist waterfall, one stationary and four moving birds (two flitting, one bobbing, one flapping wings and moving his head) in blossom tree, on ebonized base containing the going-barrel movement driving pulleys, bellows and seven brass cams, ht. 25 in.

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Auctioneer:
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Date:
2005-11-03

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