#24

French Mechanical Toy
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$1,600
sold
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Description
13" (33 cm.) Standing upon a wooden platform behind a wooden ironing board on which is a cotton cloth is a paper-mache kitten with lush white fur coat,yellow glass eyes,pink sculpted nose,and right hinged shoulder,holding a flat iron. When wound,the kitten's head bobs up and down while right arm moves the iron back and forth. Condition: generally excellent. Marks: R.D. (key). Comments: Roullet et Decamps,circa 1900,from that firm's series of "animal people" in amusing animated vignettes of everyday life. Value Points: wonderful fresh condition of the charming mechanical toy which functions well.