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Description
24" (60 cm.) Posed seated upon a wooden pedastal stool is a paper mache head clown with painted white complexion, red tipped nose and clown decorations, brown glass eyes, leather eyelids, open mouth with painted row of teeth, tongue, mohair wig, carton torso and legs, metal hinge at hips, bisque hands. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: L.B. (key). Comments: Leopold Lambert, the piece appeared in the firm's catalog of that era described as "Clown a la Guitare", #43, at 60 cm and playing two tunes, circa 1885; when wound, the clown turns his head side to side, nods, eyelids open and close and tongue sticks in and out, while he strums the guitar with his right hand, and taps his right leg in time to the music which plays. Value Points: intricate and well-functioning movements are enhanced by his original silk costume with elaborate rhinestone detail, and original decorated wooden guitar.