![]() FIND 1000s of Antiques, Art, Vintage & RARE Collectors items offered for sale by antique centres, dealers and collectors. Thanks to all our customers and friends for over 40 great years in business. Vintage Automaton for Sale: Browse TODAYs SELECTED Vintage Automaton for SALE, BEST OFFER and Auction. Just For Fun cares about authenticity and we take pride in what we do. ![]() Collectors from around the world bring their “Things of Value” to John so that he can bring life back into their prized possessions. Just For Fun has a worldwide reputation for high-quality restorations. Automaton - young washerwoman on a machine She beats the laundry with her left hand and the machine moves forward. Heads nods and arm with the newspaper script slowly changing. ![]() Today, Just For Fun is located in Orange, California, known as the antique capital of Southern California. Papier mache automaton in fully working order. Collectibles that represented fun or were a throwback to a simpler time became their trademark and thus the name, Just For Fun. To order: send e-mail or call Ken on 20 (10 am - 9 pm east coast time) Be sure to include your location and phone number. They restored antiques like gas pumps, Coke items, popcorn makers and candy gumball vending machines. ![]() In 1985, Just For Fun opened its doors in Whittier, California. A superb antique cat-in-milk churn musical automaton by Roullet & Decamps, French, circa 1900. After a few years, they decided to quit their jobs and open an antique store. He was totally consumed with his new hobby. He couldn’t wait to come home from his day job to start working on their great finds. John enjoyed refurbishing old items and bringing life back to them. They had so much fun anticipating what they would find each weekend. Choose from 15 Antique Automaton For Sale - priced from 1,350 to 55,000. They spent their weekends as swap meet warriors looking for unusual and unique treasures. Over 250 of the worlds finest and rare antique dolls, automata, and music boxes are offered on Saturday, May 14th featuring the collection of the late Ron. Samuel West, London, a substantial automaton musical bracket clock the eight-day duration, triple-fusee movement with verge escapement, striking the hours on a bell and playing four airs on eight bells, Brittons Strike Home, Miller of Mansfield, From Me to Thee and March in Scipio, the backplate engraved with rococo and floral decoration, with the dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, with two subsidiary dials for Chime/Silent and tune change, the matted centre having a date aperture and a silvered plaque engraved with the maker's name Samuel West, London, with cast-brass gilded spandrels to the four corners, the arch incorporating an automaton picture of a village scene with various moving parts, in an ebonised case with a pagoda pediment surmounted by a flame finial, with gilt-brass mounts and applied gilt decoration, height 90cm, width 45cm.In the early 80’s, Sandy and John Peterson became interested in antique restorations. Your search for art, design, antiques and collectables starts here.
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