大型自动音乐玩偶"弹吉他的人", Lambert制造, 约1900年

With papier-mâché character head depicting a smiling black man with hinged jaw and two rows of carved teeth, brown glass eyes, articulated eyelids, black hair wig and goatee beard, elegant painted bisque hands holding guitar, velvet-covered base containing five-cam open-spring mechanism that plays two airs (on one revolution) as the figure turns his head, strums and lifts the neck of the instrument while blinking and moving his mouth as though singing, dressed in original minstrel's metallic silk tailcoat, printed silk tail coat, printed silk waistcoat, wing collar, bowtie and pointed satin shoes, height 27 ½ in (70 cm). – A rare Lambert character in wonderful original condition!