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(Automatic Pleasures, N. Costa p.216)
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A 'Laughing Sailor' coin-operated automaton by Modern Enterprises, London
with seated sailor in uniform, with painted papier-maché head and hands, spray-stencilled clear seascape scene behind, movement to arms, head and torso, record player for excessive laughter in base (laughing record lacking), in black painted wood case with glazed top, circa 1950. -68in. (173cm.) high
with seated sailor in uniform, with painted papier-maché head and hands, spray-stencilled clear seascape scene behind, movement to arms, head and torso, record player for excessive laughter in base (laughing record lacking), in black painted wood case with glazed top, circa 1950. -68in. (173cm.) high
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