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********************************************************************* The trades - and particularly trades old - are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. The possibility of using real tools and of translating the most significant gestures of these various trades makes it possible - beyond its ludic mission - to invest the automat of a teaching dimension of witness of gestures and know-how become rare when they did not disappear. Opposite, the apothecary finds, like the majority of the automats, a all the more realistic dimension as it is placed within a decoration which gives him its raison d'être. Below, the ropemaking machine and its authentic old wheel - wheel modified for an intensive rotation. Low, the woman with the sewing machine start, just like the ropemaking machine, the whole of the mechanisms of its trade. |
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The water carrier |
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******************************************** If the small automats quantitatively are not represented best on this page, they of course remain the most adapted to a private use and more especially as their task is not then any more associated a commercial purpose. In anyway, it is not a general information; the proof is the character below - striker of pane with its cane - since it is an adaptation of an automat formerly placed out of window and whose hand came to strike the pane in order to draw the attention of the passers by.
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To fakir, topic of show par excellence, was carried out on an
old basis. It turns the head and moves the left arm, the hand holding a rod. When the rod arrives at the height of the "magic ball", that last lights one moment. |
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An old headstock was used to carry out this player of barrel organ wired for sound. |
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It is always interesting and amusing to treat an automat with
the second degree. Is it possible to forget that this handling character of the puppets is an automat? Certainly not and it is not the finality. But why not let itself take with the play one moment? |
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One finds in this character distributor of leaflet an automat
with advertising vocation. It takes a document in the basket placed in front of him then raises it so that somebody seizes and thus reproduces his gesture of it. The principle is adaptable to all kinds of sizes and aspects. It is possible to at will supplement its advertising vocation by equipping it with a modifiable sound message according to the promotion which one wishes to develop. This option is adaptable to all the automats. |
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A schoolgirl wisely installed in front of her work table
(antic). From time to time, it leans the head and writes one moment then raises the head. |
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The monkey, probably one of the animals most used out of
automat during previous centuries. Here, it is satisfied to turn the head and to applaud... It can, as all the other automats, being equipped with a detector of presence for a specific startup automatic. |
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Finally a smoker who will not fall very seriously sick and who will not harm his entourage! |
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Often, an accessory of quality can be at the origin of an
inspiration. It is the case for this young girl being balanced on her horse. |
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Another "traditional" intended to draw the
attention and to make dream : the blower of bubbles. Often represented in the form of Teddy bear, one can take pleasure to see him adopting another aspect. Here still the principle is adaptable to all kinds of characters of very diverse aspects and sizes. Height: 90 cm |
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A large Nativity treated in two dimensions, i.e. that the characters are silhouettes; on
the other hand, decorations and costumes are real.



The imps... that they work for the Santa Claus or another glorious cause, who imports
after all as long as they make dream children and adults...
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and see a graphic model of adaptation of the characters of the carnival of Venice
to a decoration of Christmas. Even if it is about a temporal shift, the festif and oneiric
aspect of the characters blurs this detail.

Christmas without Santa Claus would not be really serious here... thus here on his sledge
drawn by a reindeer and accompanied by one by his imps.
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************************************************ The ropemaking machine presented higher transform here as a Christmas character working of gold wire. Many are the trades which can thus (or differently) be associated to Christmas. |
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An imp (70 cm) with his reindeer (170 cm) |
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Another adaptation of the same topic. |
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Now, with Santa Claus |
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