Gadget metal automatom in nickel silver with its jaws in swan skin. It opens and pulls out its tongue, its glass eyes opens and closes when pressing on a button located in the back of the shaft. It is written on the back "déposé" (cf. C. Dike's Cane Curiosa).
On a brown bamboo shaft, metal ferrule.
Knob's measures : 2,8'' high by 2'' large.
Overall length : 37,4''.
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