Automaton Pocket Watches
Automaton Pocket Watches. Below are some examples of pocket watches which have automatons in their design, including an 18 karat gold watch by Lecoultre & Co and an open face…
Automaton Table Clocks
Automaton Table Clocks. Below are some examples of automaton table clocks including a Henry Borrell "Sailing Ships" clock and a George III musical clock by John Mottram HENRY BORRELL, LONDON.…
Automaton Clocks
Automaton Clocks. An automaton clock or automata clock is a type of striking clock featuring automatons. Clocks like these were built from the 1st century BC through to Victorian times…
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Whistling Automatons
Whistling Automatons. Below are some examples and price guides of whistling automatons including a French whistling boy called "Theo" and a German whistling man leaning on a lamp post. A…
Singing Bird Boxes
Singing Bird Boxes. A singing bird box (boîte à oiseau chanteur in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval…
Cuckoo Clocks
Cuckoo Clocks. A cuckoo clock is a simple form of an automaton clock. It is typically a pendulum-regulated clock that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo's call…
Bird Automatons
Bird automatons can take the form of birds in cages, clocks and even very tiny small birds in boxes. Below are some examples of bird automatons, including a silver-gilt and…
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Snuff Box Automatons
Snuff Box Automatons. Snuff has been used by all classes for centuries and boxes could be simple to elaborately decorated. The best quality snuff boxes were sometimes fitted with musical…
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Karl Griesbaum
Karl Griesbaum. The Griesbaum firm for more than half a century dominated among the companies that produced snuffboxes with singing birds. Its production capacity exceeded the production capacity of all…
