PASTILLES VALDA, Voici le vrai remède, Lot n° 32

PASTILES VALDA, Here's the real cure, Scene of the sick room, Automaton COURTIN and printing on metals by the ALUTOL, Paris, France, around 1925, Illustration signed Georges GRELLET. Painted and screen-printed metal window display on wooden frame, wind-up mechanism. It presents the character of Doctor VALDA, dressed in a nurse's apron, in a room of patients lying in their beds, two of them waving their heads. The movements are produced by the decompression of a spring blade which acts on rods. 58x80x15 cm. (In working order) Reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition "Automates de Pub", of the New National Museum of Monaco, summer 2008, page 17, and under N°21 page 30 of the "Automates publicitaires" by Daniel Bordet.