Tireur Automate, an extremely rare bisque headed clockwork toy, modelled as a Zouave soldier with moulded brown moustache, fixed blue glass eyes, original faded blue costume trimmed with yellow braid, red belt and turban, sword and wooden gun, mounted on a wooden platform covered in crinkled paper, stones and sand with 'log' on/off switch, and four wheels at the base, as the platform moves in a circular direction he kneels down, shoulders his rifle and fires repeatedly - 10in. wide, stamped on the base 'J STEINER à Vaureal (Bte ???)'

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Tireur Automate, an extremely rare bisque headed clockwork toy, modelled as a Zouave soldier with moulded brown moustache, fixed blue glass eyes, original faded blue costume trimmed with yellow braid, red belt and turban, sword and wooden gun, mounted on a wooden platform covered in crinkled paper, stones and sand with 'log' on/off switch, and four wheels at the base, as the platform moves in a circular direction he kneels down, shoulders his rifle and fires repeatedly - 10in. wide, stamped on the base 'J STEINER à Vaureal (Bte ???)'
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Literature

See The Dolls of Jules Nicolas Steiner, Dorothy McGonagle, Hobby House Press Inc, pp. 232 and 233

Lot Essay

This toy was patented by Jules Steiner on April 24th and October 23rd 1894 when he was 62 and was the last known to be filed by him

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