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Description
22" (56 cm.) Posed upon a velvet-covered wooden platform is a bisque-head gentleman with brown glass inset eyes,slightly parted lips,painted facial features,brown mohair wig over cork pate,slender elongated carton torso and legs,bisque forearms,and wearing a fine silk satin green suit with yellow satin lapels and cuffs,ivory fitted vest and pleated shirt front,bow-tie,tall hat,painted black stockings,silk shoes,and fancy fob. He is holding a cigarette holder in his right hand (two fingers re-glued). Movements and Music. Turning his head side-to-side,he inclines it forward while lifting the cigarette holder to his lips and inhaling and then exhaling. The smoking illusion is created by hidden internal rubber tubing and bellows. Music plays.Leopold Lambert,Paris,circa 1890,the doll is marked "Depose Tete Jumeau Bte SGDG 3". The automaton was described in the Lambert catalog as model 23bis Petit Marquis Fumeur.