OPTIQUE MEDICALE, Lot n° 24

MEDICAL OPTICS, Automaton DECAMPS, Paris, France 1930s. Automatic display case in wood and painted cut metal, electro-mechanical 110 volts, it represents an optician's character calling out on the front of his medical optics pharmacy, an old man who seems to have a visual deficiency. The movements are produced by the pendulum of a mercury electrical contact and rods. 41.5x55x13 cm. (In working order) Reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition "Automates de Pub", of the New National Museum of Monaco, summer 2008, page 30 and under N°16 page 27 of "Automates publicitaires" by Daniel Bordet.