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Description
19" (48 cm.) Posed on a silk brocade-covered wooden platform is a bisque-head Professor standing behind his teacher's desk, holding a book and a teaching rod, while alongside is the classroom student "dunce" in kneeling position and with accessory ears. When wound, the professor turns side-to-side, nodding his head and waving his stick as he turns to the student, then inclining his head to read from his book. The Dunce lifts his book up and down, pretending to study, while his ears move up and down and back and forth as though mocking the professor. Two tunes are played. Condition: generally excellent, mechanism and music function well and amusingly. Comments: Roullet et Decamps, circa 1895 with bisque heads by Jumeau and Gaultier, circa 1895. Value Points: the amusing vignette is well-preserved, including school room details such as teacher's bell and blackboard.