Silver Swan, Bowes Museum

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"This musical automaton is much loved and over the last century has become the icon of The Bowes Museum. The Silver Swan dates from 1773 and was first recorded in 1774 as a crowd puller in the Mechanical Museum of James Cox, a London showman and dealer. The internal mechanism is by John Joseph Merlin, a famous inventor of the time."

http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/the-silver-swan/history/

Video captured with my Sony cybershot digicam.

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