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23" (58 cm.) Seated daintily upon a wooden stool on a green velvet -covered platform is a bisque-head lady with blue glass paperweight inset eyes, dark eyeliner, painted lashes and brows, closed mouth, pierced ears, brunette human hair hand-tied wig over cork pate, carton torso and legs, wire upper arms, bisque forearms, wearing (frail) factory-original rose silk dress with elaborate metal and bead appliques, matching slippers. When wound, music plays, the lady moves her head up and down in a nodding fashion, then side-to-side, while moving the mandolin up and down in her left hand, and strumming the keys with her right; meanwhile her right leg taps in time to the music. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: 7 (head) L.B. (key). Comments: Leopold Lambert, circa 1890. Value Points: all-original automaton with gorgeous Jumeau bisque head, (frail) luxury original couturier costume, superb movements and music with gorgeous sound.