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And another one, full working order it says. £2000.00

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NOVELTY-MERC ... :rk:5:pf:0

I like that it's great, well done

I’m not sure Sweetmeats that the Lord George Clowes photo and the photo immediately above are of the same location because the promenade railings behind the top row of machines are very different from those in the above photo. In the Lord George photo they have a filigree leaf pattern running betwe...

I think you may change your mind after consuming the contents of this advent calendar BP.

Ebay seems to think that a buyer should buy the item, then view it, and if it is not suitable the seller provides a refund. Like that is going to happen! But surely there is going to be a hell of a lot of negative feedback as the seller takes revenge on the buyer. Not fair on the buyer when the sel...

speedwell wrote: Would love to see the link but not showing ( at least not to me ). Any chance of putting it up again ?
Thanks

Speedwell,
Rather than re-send the link I think it would be better if you fire up You Tube and type JAQUET DROZ CORPORATE MOVIE into the search box and then open from the list.

John

Mr PM says, Spectacle Mécanique at the Great Room, 6 King Street, Covent Garden where Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz's automata performed in 1776. Henri-Louis and his son Pierre worked from the mid to the late 1700's building exquisite clocks and amazing automaton. Such was their reputation that much of t...

I cannot see many collectors would be willing to ship a collection from Australia to UK? Unless the machines were very cheap it would surely not be viable? About 5 years ago it cost £65 to ship by sea a WW1 Thornycroft lorry engine including it's firepump subframe in a crate about 5ft x 4ft x 3ft f...

I have just got back from visiting this brilliant exhibition put on by the Rowland Emett Society and the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Traveling Exhibition with support from other automaton makers. In order to showcase Roland Emett’s work the RES are showing Emett’s last and biggest creation ‘A Quiet ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL


May Santa have one of these in his sack for you.

John

"Stevenson and Lovett", R&W were distributors. Thanks for the correction BP, I must be cracking up. !!LOSINGIT!! The Retreeva does give a free game if set to do so. It has three operator settings, selected by flipping a horizontal 'switch' inside, with 'repeat' and 'return' stamped on...

I don't know why Bryans changed the detection method from that of the Payramid that I own, as it seems much more reliable than the Retreeva method. I read somewhere that it is thought that Bryans chose to keep all the balls in sight so that they did not get contaminated with oil / grease from passi...