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Nodding Chef Storefront Automaton, 1930s, with composition head and hands and articulated blue glass eyes, the electric motor in the body causing his head to nod from side to side and his eyes to look from left to right, in original costume, ht. 26 in., (plug cut off), two movements.


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Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2006-07-29

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