Set Reminder2019-07-21 21:30:002019-07-21 21:30:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Automata: Life & Other Illusions https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/automata-life-other-illusions-21996 This sale features the automaton collection of Michael Kam. Over 150 vintage and modern mechanical marvels will go on the block, including rare and unusual examples by Vichy, Lambert, Phalibois, and their contemporaries.
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The Turk Chess-Player Automaton. Paris: Pierre Mayer, ca. 2010s. Hand-painted wooden automaton with exposed works. Modeled after Von Kempelen's famous eighteenth century chess-player automaton, and depicting the player raising and lowering a chess piece as the doors to the cabinet open and close ? from one view, a man is seen inside the cabinet, but from the other he has disappeared. 11 ? x 6 x 3 ??. Signed by the maker.