Sold for:
$2,350

Manivelle Automaton with Twin Gebruder Heubach Bisque Laughing Character Babies, early 20th century, with blue painted eyes, open-closed mouths each with two molded teeth, impressed HEUBACH in a square 7604 , dressed in matching pink and blue baby outfits, each holding the end of a string of bells, on paper-covered box with hand-turned cylinder movement causing babies to move from side to side in unison, and raise their arms to ring the bells, lg. 6 x 10 in.


Skinner

Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2005-05-03

Archived auctions similar to Manivelle Automaton with Twin Gebruder Heubach Bisque Laughing Character Babies Down arrow


Sold for:
$3,525

Manivelle Theatre Automaton with Six Dancing Dolls, with German bisque heads, open mouths, fixed glass eyes, brown mohair wigs, wood bodies with bisque arms and Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2007-10-28


Sold for:
$3,055

Manivelle Automaton of a Cat Organ-Grinder, with green glass eyes, whiskers, and articulated mohair-covered head, mouth and paws, turning the handle of a grained paper-covered Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2006-07-29


Sold for:
$2,585

Manivelle Automaton of a Cats' Tea Party, circa 1890, the five fur-covered cats with glass eyes, articulated heads, mouths, paws and tails, one standing and Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2006-07-29


Sold for:
$1,175

Unusual Santa Manivelle Automaton, Germany, early 20th century, the two Santa figures with papier-maché heads, hands, and booted feet, in original red felt outfits, standing Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2005-12-15


Sold for:
$1,880

Manivelle Automaton of a Village Dance, with five Schoeneau & Hoffmeister bisque-headed figures, two seated musicians with banjos and three dancers in original polychrome satin Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2005-11-03


Sold for:
$225

Rocking Ship Automaton, with two ships on tissue paper sea controlled by two-air cylinder movement, originally pull-string and now converted to manivelle, under painted glass Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2008-08-23


Sold for:
$7,050

Rare Mechanical Picture Automaton of Two Monkey Musicians, by Tharin , the hand-colored engraving of a male and female monkey in evening dress sitting before Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2006-07-29


Sold for:
$1,528

Manivelle Musical Automaton of Three Cat Musicians, with additional pull-string "meow," the carpeted base covered in chromolithographic paper of cats chasing rats, wd. 14 in. Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2002-04-13


Sold for:
$176

Two Carved and Painted Christmas Manivelle Automata, mid 20th century, of a carousel with riders and a tree with procession of rotating folk characters, on Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2005-11-03


Sold for:
$64,625

Unique Automaton of a Dancer on a Chair by Henry Phalibois, the Chaplinesque figure with white papier-mache face, music hall make-up, smiling mouth, red mohair Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2007-10-28