"Nègre Fumeur" Automaton by Roullet et Decamps, c. 1910

With plaster-composition head, original paint (some minor retouch), black hair wig, brown eyes with articulated lids and articulated lower lip, sitting barefoot on bamboo chair, his torso containing bellows and single-air going-barrel movement that causes the boy to turn and nod his head, blink and raise the pipe to inhale while waving a newspaper with his left hand, the smoke drawn through the right arm and emitted from the mouth as he exhales, in original velvet jacket, silk shirt and checked silk cap, ht. 24 in. (61 cm). With steel size 10 key. A smoking automaton with expressively modeled character head, in working condition. – Literature: Bailly, "Automata, The Golden Age", p. 321.