Bilderautomat „The monkey chamber orchestra“

Dieses  extrem rare flachmechanische Bild einer Affenkapelle stammt aus Frankreich und entstand um 1855,. Im YT-Info heißt es u.a. „ There are 12 separate movements to the figures and the accompanying barking dog, all controlled by an intricate and complicated system of pulleys, strings and weights that amazingly has also survived intact. Notice, for example, some of the original French newspaper that was used to create a weight on one of the counterbalances, along with the dots of red wax holding it all in place. This system is driven by its own separate running motor wound on the left hand side of the frame, and operated by a sliding mother-of-pearl button on the right hand side of the picture.“