Sold for:
$940
$940
Large Dutch Shadow Puppet Theatre in Original Box, c. 1880, with original instruction book and a translation of scene titles, the lithographed stage with curtain and orchestra has double opening revealing a full stage with audience, the curtain drops and shadows are seen on inner scrim screen, twenty-one wired articulated figures, fourteen scenes, including the "Drunkard and Woman with the Broom," box 13 x 19 x 2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-12-11
