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Description
18" (46 cm.) A country scene vignette features a bisque head doll with painted features, closed mouth, blonde mohair wig, bisque limbs, bare feet, original cotton dress, is seated upon a paper mache donkey. The donkey is standing on a paper mache base to suggest a country scene, and mill tower at one side with wooden windmills. When wound, music plays, the donkey's head bobs up and down, the windmills turned, and window of the tower opens while a bisque headed boy with blue glass eyes peeks out his head. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: French, attributed to Vichy, circa 1885. Value Points: all-original automaton functions well, has three amusing motions, and is rarely found.