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Antique tin box Valentine's crystallized Pineapple 1895, AA. Vantine & Co, Broadway, New York, dimensions approx. 14.5 x 8 x 3.5xm, rare collector's item Internal no. A0170300033

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Antique tin box Valentine's crystallized Pineapple 1895, AA. Vantine & Co, Broadway, New York, dimensions approx. 14.5 x 8 x 3.5xm, rare collector's item Internal no. A0170300033

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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. 200 - 250 EUR

VADIM ANDROUSOV (St. Petersburg, 1895-1975). "Circus acrobat". Enameled and varnished plaster. It has slight damage to the hat and a slight picket on the base. Without signature. Measurements: 25 x 19 x 10 cm. Vadim Androusov grew up in a family interested in culture (his grandfather was the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, discoverer of Troy and Mycenae -which explains why many of Androusov's sculptures are inspired by Classical Antiquity). As an artist, he preferred the use of terracotta, plaster, wood or stone to the use of bronze. Throughout his career as an artist, he exhibited his works at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon des Indépendants. Parallel to his activity as a sculptor, he collaborated with decorators and made appliqués, furniture handles and escutcheons for locks; throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, his creations adorned neoclassical furniture made by André Arbus and Jean Pascaud.

Starting price 300 EUR

Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Ancient ruins in Italy, c. 1895, Indian ink Technique: Indian ink on Paper Date: c. 1895 Verso: character sketch Keywords: Italy, Rome, Gate, Arches, Trees, Nature, Landscape, Town view, Village street, 19th century, Romanticism, Landscape, Italy, Size: Paper: 8,3 cm x 19,5 cm (3,3 x 7,7 in)

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