ROULLET DECAMPS Clown on a full moon Number... - Lot 108 - Morand & Morand

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ROULLET DECAMPS Clown on a full moon Number... - Lot 108 - Morand & Morand
ROULLET DECAMPS Clown on a full moon Number 325 of the catalog described as follows: "Very eventful piece, music one tune". Mechanism and music in the base. A winged clown (head and wings movement) standing on the moon passes a beetle over the moon's face making it squint. Twin head open mouth size 1 and hands in cookie. Very beautiful moon in cardboard pulling the tongue and squinting. Music. Height : 62 cm (Refreshed and dressed in the workshops Decamps) To be compared with the example kept in the Museum of the automaton of Souillac (Lot) Bibliography : Reproduced in the book by Christian Bailly, L'Âge d'Or des Automates, 1848-1914, Éd. Scala, Paris, 1987, pp.144-145
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