$6,000
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Description
18" (46 cm.) overall. Standing upon a velvet-covered wooden platform is a bisque head doll with blue glass paperweight inset eyes,painted features,open mouth,four porcelain teeth,pierced ears,brunette mohair wig over cork pate,carton torso and legs,wire upper arms,bisque lower arms,along with a little paper mache pup with brown glass eyes which is posed upright on a wooden barrel. When wound,music plays,and the doll turns her head from side to side and alternately taps the training baton,and then extends the brass hoop; meanwhile the pup jumps up and down and in circles. Condition: generally excellent,mechanism and music function well. Comments: Roullet et Decamps,circa 1890. Value Points: charming activity enhanced by delightful expression on the pup,original silk and lace costume on the patient little teacher. A rare automaton model to find.