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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(AUTOMATON.)Fine automaton by Zdenka,showing a young magician standing behind a table and performing a few illusions with cards, with the cards disappearing and being replaced by others; the entire mechanism stands 20 inches tall, the mechanical figure is 8 inches tall and dressed in various colors of silk or velvet with a head from a 19th-century European porcelain doll, the figure stands on a wooden base which in turn is supported on a red velvet covered base, the entire ensemble sits beneath a flowered bower.<\t>Switzerland, contemporary
