A girl with pinz-nez-and-timepiece automaton by Roullet & Decamps,
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A girl with pinz-nez-and-timepiece automaton by Roullet & Decamps,

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A girl with pinz-nez-and-timepiece automaton by Roullet & Decamps,
with bisque head, hands and legs, blue glass eyes, dressed in four layers of pleated silk, matching bonnet over brown wig, standing on a red velvet base with key-wind and start/stop at the back, moving glasses towards her eyes, moving head from side to side, raising watch closer to her and returning to have her hands in front, with two accompaning musical airs, noted on the tune sheet on underside, Gosse de riche 'Couplet, and, Yes! we have no Bananas, circa 1900 -21½in. (54.5cm) high
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