ROULLET DECAMPS Baby with a rose Number 196... Lot 10

ROULLET DECAMPS Baby with a rose Number 196 of the catalog described as follows: "Rose baby coming out from inside sending kisses and then coming in". Mechanical toy with cast bisque head with open mouth with double rows of teeth, hands in composition (Accident to a thumb). Height: 21 cm (Not functional, mechanism to be revised) To be compared with the examples preserved in the Museum of the automaton of Souillac (Lot) under the n° 118 and 120; and with the one presented in the advertising brochure of Gaston Decamps period (about 1930)