An Unusual Early 20thC Shop Window Display Automaton Head sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles and some rubbing to the

and some rubbing to the face of the Guard

the mechanism has not been cleaned or restored

Hobbs had brought with him his boss Robert Newell’s Parautoptic lock

and it remains structurally true and sound

hand and heart’

An Unusual Early 20thC Shop Window Display Automaton Head sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles and some rubbing to theOrigin: English Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 30 Height: 12. 75 inches Width: 6 inches The papier mch and composition fabric webbing head with wooden base and metal framed bridge nose having a weighted automaton movement operating the eyes, moving them from left to right when prompted, survives from the first quarter of the twentieth century from a shop window display front. The head is presented in as found