Null Lot of shares and treasury bills.

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Lot of shares and treasury bills.

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Lot of shares and treasury bills.

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Estim. 8 000 - 12 000 EUR

A VERY RARE LATE 19TH CENTURY 'WHISTLER' MUSICAL AUTOMATON FIGURE BY HENRY PHALIBOIS Paris, c. 1895, the antique automata figure modelled in papier mache composition as a schoolboy or street urchin, designed with blue eyes and articulated dancing eyelids, with slightly open lips, and with blonde hair, elegantly posed with arched back and stomach pushed forwards, his right hand with index finger oustreteched, articulated from the elbow with the lever passing through the side of his torso, his left hand nonchalantly thrust into his trouser pocket, on velvet-covered base containing going-barrel mechanism driving both the quadruple action automata and the musical 'whistling' mechanism, causing the figure to rock his head from side to side, lower and raise his eyelids and raising and lowering his outstretched left hand as though keeping time to the tune, once activated by a stop/start lever positioned to the edge of the platform behind his feet. 87cm (34,25ins) high, 30cm (11.75ins) diameter at the base. The automaton is working when wound and the switch activated, but is not fully tested or guaranteed. The winding key is present. The lot is in good overall condition commensurate with age. Related Literature: See Bailly, Automata, the Golden Age, p165 for an identical model. In 1895, Henry Phalibois advertised "figures playing instruments, speaking, singing, whistling, laughing". Many of his automata did all five things at once, although this Whistler is more restrained. Depicting a Parisian street urchin, he appears on Phalibois' letter head and advertisements at the turn of the century, and was evidently considered by his creator as something of a mascot for the new direction the firm was taking in the creation of large, character driven pieces that depict raffish characters with surpirsing, often vulgar actions. Auction Comparable: An almost identical figure was sold at Skinner's, Boston, sale of Clocks, Watches and Scientific Instruments, 28 October 2007 (lot 644) for $25,850. Use this link for a bespoke instant shipping quote to your location: https://app.thepackengers.com/en/product_widgets/bP0V7cM2BF/destination/new

Estim. 20 - 40 EUR

Ariste Excoffon, Galerie des écrivains dramatiques français. Paris, Gedalge, sd [ca.1890]. In-4. Contains some twenty pages on Balzac. Red half-chagrin, percaline boards, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges. A good copy. Alphonse du Valconseil, Revue analytique et critique des romans contemporains. Paris, Gaume frères, 1846. In-8, [4]-IV-499-[4]p. Second volume only, of which a large part, p. 1 to 177, is devoted to Balzac: introduction, études de moeurs au XIXe siècle, scènes de la vie privée, scènes de la vie de province, scènes de la vie parisienne, la peau de chagrin, le père Goriot, les Payans, David Séchard, une ténébreuse Affaire, Une Princesse parisienne, Pierrette, Grandeurs et Misères des Courtisanes, Honorine and Mémoires de deux jeunes Mariées. Half-basane with corners, rubbed. Fresh paper. Charles de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Une Page Perdue de H. de Balzac - notes et documents accompagnés du fac-simile de la page. Paris, Ollendorff, 1903. In-8, [4]-327p. First edition, one of 55 copies on hollande paper (n°33), the only large paper, justified by Edmond Deman for whom these copies were printed. Paperback, partly unclipped, untrimmed, leaves near yellowed covers. Rare. Abbé Charles Calippe, Balzac, ses idées sociales. Reims, action populaire & Paris, Lecoffre, sd [1906?]. In8, 116p. Bradel, full green percaline, title page, covers preserved. A good copy. André Fouqueure, Honoré de Balzac à Angoulême - La genèse d'un chef-d'oeuvre. Paris, Société générale d'imprimerie et d'édition Levé, 1913. In-8, 77p. Edition printed at 300 copies on hollande, n°63. Red half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed, cold fleurons, covers and spine preserved. Uncommon, well bound. Lot of 3 books: Émile Lacquièze, L'Homme de Loi dans l'OEuvre de Balzac. Bordeaux, L. Delbrel, 1921. Dr. F. Lotte, En marge de la "Comédie humaine": La Vie du docteur Horace Bianchon. La Revue du Caire, 1947. Letter to bookseller Georges Courville, signed (typescript) by Dr. Lotte. Abbé Joseph Desmares, Honoré de Balzac à Bayeux - 1822. Bayeux, Imprimerie Colas, 1890.

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