A Palais Royal ring-stand,

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A Palais Royal ring-stand,
formed as a harp on a chased and fretted gilt base with an automaton bronze monkey conductor chained to a music stand with silvered music sheets signed Capt & Freundler a Geneve, the base containing a two-air movement by H.Capt, No. 1517 -- 9in. (23cm.) high, the cylinder 2¾in. (7cm.), with mahogany base and glass dome

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The monkey's head moves from side to side, controlled by a bell-crank activated by large pins on the cylinder. His baton moves up and down, controlled by a saw-tooth form cam on the end of the cylinder; there are two different cams, corresponding to the two tunes. The movement (which is wound from the side, with a sliding cover for the arbor) has damage to the crown wheel, great wheel and comb (one tooth, five tips).