An Early 20thC German Singing Bird Cage Automaton c.1930 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The Wood Tiger

The Wood Tiger

this chair would have been well used within the rooms of a Welsh farmhouse in the second quarter of the nineteenth century

Julian’s Hall (later The Gaumont) and the North Cinema were all familiar to the Guernsey public from the late 1920s and early 1930s onwards

which included the German Kaiser in 1895

the picture looks to have been cut down from a larger composition

An Early 20thC German Singing Bird Cage Automaton c.1930 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope The Wood TigerOrigin: GermanPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1930Height: 11. 5Diameter: 5. 75The two bird singing automaton in good working order, being brass cased with a domed top to hanging ring, the two singing birds chirping for a full two and half minutes on a full wind, the real fathered plumage in yellow black and red black amongst leaves and foliage, the circular base cast with garlands of flowers, the whole being raised on three short turned