1st Feb, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Scientific & Musical Instruments, Cameras & Tools
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A Fine And Rare 'Artistic Painter' Musical Automaton, By Gustave Vichy
French, circa 1890, playing two airs from direct-drive cylinder musical movement, the chair-back seated artistic gentleman, sketching in his book, with painted head and hands, goatee fashioned beard and mustache, wearing a black hat, holding his book in left hand, a pencil in the other, moving right leg up and over whilst drawing, head down and across, posed upon upright chair with white frame and black finished infills containing the movement, later plaque with automaton title and date 1875[sic], dressed in black jacket with other period satin and silk garments, his lapel bearing painter's palette broach - 36in. (91.5cm) high
Sold for £8,500
Estimated at £5,000 - £6,000
Deterioration to clothing from age/use (fraying and fading), hands have cracks on fingers but are complete, overall Good
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Auction: Scientific & Musical Instruments, Cameras & Tools, 1st Feb, 2023
The sale includes rare and interesting pieces of musical interest, including a Lochmann 'Original Musik Automat' Coin-Operated 17-Inch Upright Disk Musical Box, an 'Minor Overture' Key-Wind Musical Box, and a good E.M.G. Mark XB Overize Horn Gramaphone. Also of note in the sale is a John B Dancer Microscope, a collection of Mining Lamps, and a large and varied collection of LP's from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Tuesday 31st January 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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