Lot Essay
The figures (with about twenty-two movements, articulated arms, one with moving eyes and three with moving eyes and jaws) comprise a king drinking from a bottle and glass, a female saint with a bird emerging from a basket, a housewife berating (or removing a tooth from) her kneeling husband, a woman operating a water-pump and another collecting donations. In apparently original condition, several small parts (including the pump lever) are missing, and the organ will require overhaul.