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Description
10" (25 cm.) l. A wooden platform with original decorative papers and painting contains the internal mechanisms, and also serves as the stage base for an active and colorful village scene, including cottage with shed and waterwheel, mountain tunnel with traversing sheep, pathway with Tyrolean costumed woman. There is a beautifully painted background scene with church spire in the distance. When wound, the waterwheel turns, the sheep move in and out of the tunnel, and the woman turns from side to side, while music plays. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: Germany, circa 1885. Value Points: superb original preservation of the delightful and well-detailed piece.