Skinner Toys Dolls Automata Science Tech Sale10/28/07 Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 9.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 05, 2008 End Time Friday, December 05, 2008 Location Saratoga Springs, New York USA See more about 'Skinner Toys Dolls Automata Science Tech Sale10/28/07' Description     YOU ARE BIDDING ON A CATALOG(S)         Title: Skinner Science & Techology And Toys & Dolls Featuring Mechanical Music, Photography And Automobiles & Automobilia   Auction held in: Bolton, Mass Sale Date:  10/28/07 No. of Lots: 1096 No. of Pages: 184 Condition:  Excellent     SKINNER TO HOST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AUCTION FEATURING VINTAGE AUTOMOBILES, TOYS AND DOLLSSkinner, one of the nation's leading auction houses, will hold an auction of Science & Technology on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 10 a.m. at its Bolton gallery located at 357 Main Street. Skinner is one of the few auction houses in the world, and the only major auction house in the U.S., to offer sales focused on Science and Technology. And, this sale won’t disappoint; more than a thousand lots of scientific material, including phonographs, technological inventions, surveying instruments, medical instruments, early cameras, computer-related objects, mechanical music, automata (mechanical dolls), and vintage automobiles and automobilia will be offered. The eclectic sale starts at 10 a.m.Vintage AutomobilesThe sale kicks off with 50 lots of fine vintage automobiles and automobilia. Six vintage cars highlight the sale, from the collection of Marion and the late Warren Higgins of Shrewsbury, MA: a 1930 Packard Deluxe Eight Phaeton (lot no. 3, est. $80/120,000); a 1937 Ford Sedan Delivery (lot no. 1, est. $25/35,000); a 1931 Ford Deluxe Roadster (lot no. 2, est. $20/25,000); a 1959 Cadillac Convertible Series 62 Deville (lot no. 7, est. $24/35,000); a 1934 Packard Std 8 Sedan (lot no. 4, est. $$20/32,000); and a 1916 Briscoe Touring Car (lot no. 5, est. $8/10,000). Auto signs, books and prints round out the sections offerings.Science & TechnologyWith more than 600 lots, the Science & Technology portion of the sale includes a very fine selection of mechanical music, rare automata, scientific instruments, early photography, classic 35mm cameras, militaria, and space memorabilia. Exceptional automaton examples include a pair of life-sized Jean Roullet Blackamoore musicians (lot 645, est. $500/600,000) depicting a man with flute and a woman with pan pipes; a rare whistler by Henry Phalibois (lot 644, est. $25/$35,000) portraying a Parisian street urchin; a Roullet et Decamps Cambodian dancer (lot 587, est. $200/300,000), which is an uncatalogued work that was never offered for sale publicly; and a rare Chinese magician by Henry Phalibois (lot 586, est. $30/40,000) whose assistant disappears from one cabinet only to appear in another. Also featured in the sale is an important gold and enamel signed singing bird box by Jaquet-Droz & Leschot (lot 558, est. $150/200,000), c. 1785. Jaquet-Droz singing bird boxes are rarely offered at public sale, the last example appearing almost ten years ago, and only a few remain in private hands. For collectors of NASA space memorabilia, bidders will fancy a Mercury 7 astronaut’s test glove (lot 193B, est. $12/15,000) featuring pen inscriptions Glenn and Schirra; a Project Gemini space flight capsule floatation ball (lot 193C, est. $1/1,500) referred to on its tag as “Unsinkable Molly Brown”; and a N.A.S.A. final Apollo 11 flight plan (lot 193D, est. $10/15,000) inscribed to “Arlene” and signed in person by the astronauts Buzz Aldren, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and eighteen others. For camera collectors a Leica M2 No. 1017843, chrome, (lot 338, est. $6/800) is expected to draw significant interest.Toys & DollsThe sale is rounded out with over 400 lots of toys, dolls, and collectibles, including good French bisque dolls and German character dolls, doll houses and doll house furniture, cast iron toys and several early Steiff animals. Highlights include eight lots of dolls, which were the childhood dolls of Mabel Lillian Hyde, born in 1882 in New York City. Hyde’s family traveled extensively and the dolls were likely purchased in Paris during a family trip. Sometime, presumably towards the end of the 19th century, the dolls were packed away in tissue paper and stored in a steamer trunk where they remained, still in their wrapping, until they were discovered earlier this year at the family house in Maine. The collection includes: a size 9 Tête Jumeau Bébé “Violet” with wardrobe (lot 648, est. $3/4,000); a size 10 bisque Tête Jumeau Bébé with original wardrobe (lot 649, est. $3/4,000); a size 12 bisque Tête Jumeau Bébé with original wardrobe (lot 650, est. $2/3,000); a Kestner bisque child doll and small wardrobe (lot 651, est. $1/1,500); a bisque swivel-neck “A.T.” Kestner doll (lot 652, est. $1/1.500); a bisque swivel head doll (lot 653, est. $1/150); a wax doll and a parian shoulder head doll (lot 654, est. $2/300); two small near-matching bisque dolls and their wardrobes (lot 655, est. $8/1,200); and a second series bisque portrait doll by Jumeau (lot 656, est. $8/1,200). Also gracing the sale is a Steiff golden mohair bear in rare original box (lot 1063, est. $8/12,000) that was once the childhood teddy of Paul Hordern and was recently discovered at the family vault in England where he had resided since the second decade of the 20th century. 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