This machine is a small version of a
Paul Spooner original , the original being 5 or 6 times as big and a great
deal more complex , however the small version does reassemble itself.
The girl delivers the
bad news by moving her lips and stands up to leave, her boyfriend cannot
deal with the resulting emotion and promptly collapses in a heap with his
chair.He is a vegetarian hence the cucumber painted inside his torso. The
machine then resets itself.
The box is
Douglas fir with a beech ,brass, steel and string mechanism the couple are
carved of lime wood.
The model is 130mm x
90mm x 210mm high. There are 12 only , made in December 1994.
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