Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually ornate Shortest 3 1/2" long

Shortest 3 1/2" long

The jacket of the largest is a lighter blue than the rest

where it has probably lived since it was made

a truly lovely object

Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually ornate Shortest 3 1/2" longI 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