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Click here to subscribeA rare gilt bronze automaton clock by J F Houdin, 1836, surmounted by a Chinese magician in formal dress standing behind his star draped magic table and lifting alternate cups to reveal balls and dice. The silvered dial inscribed J F Houdin, Paris, within ornate mounts cast with dolphins, mythical birds and beasts and foliage. The automaton movement engraved Invente et Execute a la Fabrique DHorlogerie, J F Houdin Rue Vielle de Temple No. 78 A Paris, 1836, 45cm high x 31.5cm wide
A good quantity of well used Meccano, parts strips, girders, wheels, plates, rods, a few gear wheels, triple throw eccentric, pulley/flange and flanged wheels, brackets, bolts and nuts etc, all in 1930s blue/gold, nickel, green and red etc, early propeller blades, crane grab, magic and No 1 clockwork motors in blue; plus a few primus plates etc, and Trix parts including electric motor. All contained in a home made chest with two removeable trays approx 18" x 11" x 11". AF to GC (mostly well worn, finish and minor rusting)
Progressive Rock - Thirty-three 33 r.p.m. long playing records, including Stackridge, 'Stackridge' (MCA MDKS 8002), gatefold sleeve; Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, 'Soundtrack' (Dandelion S 63752), gatefold sleeve; and King Crimson, 'In the Court of the Crimson King' (Island ILPS 9111), 1st pressing, pink label with 'i' logo, gatefold sleeve, (box).
A brass and black lacquered tin magic lantern, converted for electrical operation; a gas powered magic lantern; a collection of 12 wooden framed, long hand-painted glass slides of humorous situations; numerous photographic studies of Hastings; and other English and European slides, including hand-painted examples.
Board games, various games to include Chad Valley 'Big League' football game, Merit Toy 'The Amazing Magic Robot', Palitoy 'Star Wars', Casden Luxury Toys 'Casden Soccer Played by Bobby Charlton', Waddington's 'Rail Roader' and 'Campaign', Gibsons Games 'Escape From Colditz' and Parker Games 'Escape From Colditz' (8)
Anderson (Florence Mary, 1874-c.1930). Original watercolour illustration, entitled 'The Fairies of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter send him to the Mother of the Babies', for The Magic Kiss, a Picture Story-Book for Children, by Christine Chaundler, [1916], pen, ink & watercolour, signed, with pencil inscription to mount, and title in pencil to verso, approx. 176 x 142 mm (7 x 5.5 in) Horne, Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 71. See illustration on inside front cover of this catalogue. (1)