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Description
17" (43 cm.) A brown fur-covered paper-mache bear
with carved wooden paws is holding a bubble pipe
in one paw and a bowl with sudsy water in the
other. Movement. Dipping the pipe into the
bowl,then lifting the pipe,he is designed to blow
bubbles into the air (mechanism needs work). The
action is created by a series of internal piping.
Decamps,circa 1910,from their series of animal
automata in amusing lifelike activities.