Musical Tableau Mecanique Automaton

Description:

Musical Tableau Mecanique Automaton, circa 1880, of a riverserside scene with painted background and wood and card foreground with Gothic clock tower containing two-train movement striking on a gong, suspension bridge, foot bridge and romantic ruins, the going-barrel automaton movement causing windmill sails and watermill sweeps to turn, a three-masted ship to toss on tissue paper waves, a locomotive and three carriages to cross the suspension bridge, and figures on horseback to cross the footbridge, in giltwood and gesso frame with four-air lever-wind cylinder movement underneath, 27 x 36 in., (tissue paper disintegrating, locomotive detached).
Estimate $8,000-12,000