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Details
A motor for an early waltzing couple automaton,
of brass construction with going-barrel driving two wheels, pivoting axle and single-air cylinder movement mounted on a block, on three-wheeled circular wood base; and a later Armand Marseille 370 bisque shoulder-head and cloth torso - 17in. (18cm.) diam., (inoperative, two teeth off comb), probably by Vichy.
of brass construction with going-barrel driving two wheels, pivoting axle and single-air cylinder movement mounted on a block, on three-wheeled circular wood base; and a later Armand Marseille 370 bisque shoulder-head and cloth torso - 17in. (18cm.) diam., (inoperative, two teeth off comb), probably by Vichy.
Literature
Christian Bailly (1987), Automata, The Golden Age, 1848 - 1914, p. 222 and 223 for details of similar movements.
Special notice
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