PASTILLES VALDA, Lot n° 42

VALDA LOZENGES, At full speed, he carries the right remedy, Scène de l'aéroplane, Automate COURTIN and printing on metals by the ALUTOL, Paris, France, around 1930. Illustration by Georges GRELLET. Automatic window display in painted and screen-printed folded cut-out metal on wooden frame, wind-up mechanism. He presents an airplane piloted by Doctor VALDA waving his hat, flying over the countryside and villages of France. The movements are produced by the decompression of a spring blade which acts on rods. 61x90x18 cm. (In working order) Reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition "Automates de Pub", of the New National Museum of Monaco, summer 2008, page 18 and under N°45 page 48 of the "Automates publicitaires" by Daniel Bordet.