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Modelled on Phalibois monkey automata.
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A monkey advertising automaton for Peter Pan Scotch Oats,
with articulated eyes and mouth, seated at a table, the electric motor causing him to lift a spoon, tilt his head back, open his mouth, blink, then raise the flag in his left hand, bang his fist on the table and wink, in the original pyjamas and dressing gown, on aluminium base with plaque Manufactured by the Fife Engineering Co. Ltd., Fenco House, Elie-Fife, Scotland. Fenco -- 19in. (48cm.) high, in maker's wood crate with typed instruction sheet
with articulated eyes and mouth, seated at a table, the electric motor causing him to lift a spoon, tilt his head back, open his mouth, blink, then raise the flag in his left hand, bang his fist on the table and wink, in the original pyjamas and dressing gown, on aluminium base with plaque Manufactured by the Fife Engineering Co. Ltd., Fenco House, Elie-Fife, Scotland. Fenco -- 19in. (48cm.) high, in maker's wood crate with typed instruction sheet
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