Automatic Toys
The Kleine Wereld’s collection also includes small but particularly charming automatic toys. Automatic toys were expensive luxury toys for very rich children only. At that time a self-moving doll was still a small wonder.
Some automatic toys made eight or more successive different movements. They conjured, danced, combed their doll’s hair, and in the meantime a charming music box was tinkling … In their original state, today they are valuable collectors’ items much sought after, radiating a dreamy charm.
