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DRAMAMINE, For the evils of travel, Coach scene,...

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DRAMAMINE, For the evils of travel, Coach scene, from unknown manufacturer, France, late 1950s. Automatic display case in painted and screen-printed cut-out wood, papier-mâché and moulded plastic, electromechanical 110 volts, It depicts a coach in front of the road, shaken by its rolling in a mountain landscape. The movements are produced by a rotary motor, which drives the rotation of a damaged cylinder. It's marked on the back, "Advertising Visa 1959.30367." 72x55x37 cm. (In working order) Reproduced in the catalogue of the exhibition "Automates de Pub", of the New National Museum of Monaco, summer 2008, page 22 and under N°39 page 44 of the "Automates publicitaires" by Daniel Bordet.