Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually ornate Carved of wood and painted

Carved of wood and painted the perfect orange with white nd black spots

a truly lovely object

Shortest 3 1/2" long

such as these from Transportes del Norte

The mirror shows some aging as these pretty much always do

Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually ornate Carved of wood and paintedI think these are amazing. I've come across a few others (though none as lovely), but no one ever seems to know anything about them. I think most likely they were part of a cuckoo clock or something similar, where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger their wings to raise and beaks to open perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp! I like these stuck in a small vase like flowers, or you could stick them in a small planter, to circle