2012 Antique Toy & Train Auction 2012-11-17 Auction - 583 Price Results - Pook & Pook, Inc. with Noel Barrett in PA - Page 2
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2012 Antique Toy & Train Auction

The sale includes almost 400 lots from the collection of the late Athelstan & Katherine Spilhaus. Many of the items on offer were pictured in their book 'Mechanical Toys-How Old Toys Work' , 1989 by Crown Publishers, New York.The collection displays their wide range of interest in mechanical music, optical and scientific devices. Also included in the sale are more than 200 lots from Rick Ralston, author of 'Cast Iron Floor Trains' published in 1984 as well as a wonderful grouping of American painted tin toys from the collection of Joseph Copp. Also included in the sale are many other items from various consigners, a number of are attic treasures fresh to the market.
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Five Automata Reference Books: Automata,The Golden Age by Christian Bailly, Automata, The private Collection of Christian Bailly (beautiful HB catalog of the 2004 sale) by Florence Theriault, Automata Historical and Technological
0374: Five Automata Reference BooksEst. US$200-US$300
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Flower Seller Doll Automaton: a charming doll with bisque French fashion head and matching shoulder plate(unmarked), hands and blue glass eyes; her full flower print dress is held circular with a wire hoop and conceals the
0375: Flower Seller Doll AutomatonEst. US$500-US$700
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Angel Riding Bull Toy: painted composition on stained tin wheeled clockwork base, angel with gold painted wings rides on fringed blanket and hold ribbon reins - very unusual Size: 5.5" l.
0376: Angel Riding Bull ToyEst. US$400-US$600
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Piano Player Musical Mandeville Toy: lady pianist with bisque head and painted wood arms, she is dressed in velvet and lace sitting at a Waltershausen style paper decorated upright piano on paper covered wooden box, crank operated music
0377: Piano Player Musical Mandeville ToyEst. US$700-US$900
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Girl at Spinning Wheel Mandeville Musical Toy: cloth dressed girl with bisque head and wood hands operates treadle which spins the wheel while she pulls back and forth on yarn with her right hand - all the while turning her head back and forth
0378: Girl at Spinning Wheel Mandeville Musical ToyEst. US$1,500-US$2,000
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Boy & Girl Dancers on Spinning Platforms: cloth dressed papier-mache and wood dancers mounted on gyroscopic-top type cast metal platforms which are spun by pulling a string - the raised lines on the platform impart a dancing motion to the
0379: Boy & Girl Dancers on Spinning PlatformsEst. US$400-US$600
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Oriental Lady Clockwork Toy: finely crafted sheet brass with amazing detail, her head and hand appear to be of ivory, internal clockwork propels the toy forward, in her hands are a tray with cup wired to her hands; the first
0380: Oriental Lady Clockwork ToyEst. US$1,200-US$1,500
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'Annette Kellermann' Swimming Toy: painted tin clockwork swimming toy most likely of German origin - the toy is pictured and discussed on pages 71 and 72 of Mechanical Toys by Athelstan and Kathleen Spilhaus; we have not seen this toy
0381: 'Annette Kellermann' Swimming ToyEst. US$400-US$600
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'Ondine' Swimming Mechanical Doll: of various materials including painted wood head and jointed arms and legs, internal clockwork mechanism moves arms and legs to simulate the breaststroke (see pages 70 and 71 Mechanical Toys by
0382: 'Ondine' Swimming Mechanical DollEst. US$300-US$500
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Detailed Rickshaw Toy: a very finely crafted miniature rickshaw made of painted tin and wood, fully upholstered and outfitted with folding cloth canopy, rubber tired wire spoke wheels, metal bulb horns and elaborate
0383: Detailed Rickshaw ToyEst. US$500-US$600Lot Passed
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Hand Operated Drawing Machine: finely crafted brass and copper device that by means of a hand turned crank draws an image on a piece of paper mounted in an easel; the template for the drawing is a 3 plate cam held in place in the
0384: Hand Operated Drawing MachineEst. US$2,000-US$3,000
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Mechanical Artist by James Walker: painted and copper plated tin hand operated by means of crank seated figure draws a profile image of Queen Victoria; this example and a discussion of it's relationship to the later and more easily
0385: Mechanical Artist by James WalkerEst. US$2,000-US$3,000
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Seated Boy in Fez Bubble Blower Toy: painted tin and brass hand operated toy, depicts a robed boy with tasseled hat seated on a pedestal, with the press of a lever he dips his pipe in soap solution then raises pipe as if to mouth but
0386: Seated Boy in Fez Bubble Blower ToyEst. US$500-US$700
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Gunthermann Smoking Dude Toy: painted tin with ingenious clockwork mechanism: to operate smoke is blown into the canister and the lid closed then a paper bellows beneath the canister pushes smoke through a tube thence out of the
0387: Gunthermann Smoking Dude ToyEst. US$2,500-US$3,500
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Erzgebirge Mercury Tumbler Toy: the cloth and paper dressed painted wood and composition tumbler somersaults down the steps through gravity action of enclosed mercury tube in body, paper covered box houses steps and figure when
0388: Erzgebirge Mercury Tumbler ToyEst. US$400-US$600
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Early English Acrobat Sand Toy: marked in base by Brown, Blondin & Co. London; glass fronted cased toy with suspended paper acrobat, when box is turned 'Leotard' performs - a very well performing sand toy Size: 10" x 8" x 4"
0389: Early English Acrobat Sand ToyEst. US$150-US$250
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Moving Picture Sand Toy with Drummer: sand activated moving picture toy with painted and lithographed paper drummer figure Size: 6" w. x 8" t.
0390: Moving Picture Sand Toy with DrummerEst. US$300-US$400
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Early French Mechanical Sand Toy: this wonderful and rather gruesome hand colored paper and paper covered wood animated sand toy depicting a forge is dated and signed by the (presumed) maker on reverse 'Jean de Ste. Croix de Lauze -
0391: Early French Mechanical Sand ToyEst. US$6,000-US$8,000
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Soldiers on Parade Automaton & Tin Soldier: Opening this embossed paper covered and fringe trimmed box reveals a painted wood parade ground in bottom half while the lid presents a colorful lithographed panorama of 3 enclosed viewing stands
0392: Soldiers on Parade Automaton & Tin SoldierEst. US$3,000-US$6,000
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Marching Painted Metal Soldiers: a squadron of nineteenth century costumed French soldiers made of primarily painted sheet steel are mounted on 3 moving armatures encased in wood which by some mechanical means would impart marching
0393: Marching Painted Metal SoldiersEst. US$800-US$1,200
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Burning House with Firemen Automaton: paper and paper mache covered wood with internal clockwork mechanism: two firemen man a hand pump while a third climbs a ladder ascending into the burning building; the house is lithographed paper on
0394: Burning House with Firemen AutomatonEst. US$1,500-US$2,500
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Two Ives Hot Air Animated Paper Toys: colorful lithographed paper and wood with wire armatures; similar toys are pictured in Ives 1893 catalog and were made to be attached to kitchen or parlor stove pipes and given animation by the
0395: Two Ives Hot Air Animated Paper ToysEst. US$400-US$500
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Autoperipatikos Walking Doll & extra mechanism: one of the earliest American made walking dolls - this example has a particularly fine porcelain head with molded hair in ribboned snood - a kind of heavy mesh net - a common hair style for Civil War
0397: Autoperipatikos Walking Doll & extra mechanismEst. US$400-US$600
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