Unusual Paper Doll Nodding Automaton for Hood's Sarsaparilla Cur

34 Snow Hill London and Lowell, Massachusetts, copyright C.I. Hood & Co., 1894. Chromolithographed figure of a father and his two children, the father with articulated head and arm controlled by open-spring mechanism with weighted pendulum, the children with cut-out paper costumes with advertisements on the reverse, mounted on paper-covered wood case with slotted folding section, size 7 ½ x 13 ¾ in. (19 x 35 cm) extended, overall good, bright colors, minor losses, mechanism in need of adjustment. With threaded key and original transport box numbered 1631. - Excerpt from the advertising text: "Strength, vitality and vigor must all have good blood to produce and sustain them. We live only as we die, and the constant waste of the body must find as constant upbuilding from good blood, or there is no strength … Make the blood pure by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and you will have a solid, sure support for your bodily, nerve and mental strength". - An unusual paper advertising automaton.

布雷克拍品等级是为了方便竞买人判断拍卖品的成色而设置的。布雷克等级用1到6级来标注外观和功能的成色，(从非常好到非常差)。 在目录图册里用括号里的2个数字来表示，前一个数字表示外观成色的级别，后一个数字表示功能成色的级别。如(3/2)表示外观成色是3(满意的)，功能成色2(好)。 成色 定义参照下列标准： 1 - 非常好 (未使用过，没有使用痕迹) 2 - 好 (新，极少的使用痕迹) 3 - 满意的 (普通的使用痕迹) 4 - 及格的 (明显的使用痕迹，某个非主要部件是后配的) 5 - 有缺陷的 (极明显的使用痕迹, 某个主要部件是后配的，功能上有缺陷，需要修理) 6 - 非常差 (严重破损, 缺少重要部件)