A Roullet & Decamps knitting girl automaton, with Simon & Halbig bisque head with blue lashed side glancing eyes, carton body with wired bisque arms, papier-mache legs, original pink silk dress and matching hat, brown leather shoes, seated on gold painted turned wooden chair and rectangular base covered in red velvet, keywind causing the doll to knit and move head up and down —18in. (46cm.) high (piece neatly broken from front of head, dress and base a bit distressed, wig sparse, dusty and mechanism needs attention) - this appeared in an early catalog by Roullet et Decamps named Bebe Tricoteur No.256.