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Beware of Fake Monkey Automatons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-opposed-to-real-monkey-automatons dept.

rkinch writes "The Mechanical Music Digest gives this warning about bogus monkey automatons that seem to be flooding the antiques market. These supposedly 19th-century hookah-smoking shrunken monkey heads are actually clever modern reproductions tricked up to look old. That "Marvo the Magic Monkey" specimen hanging on your wall may not really date back to 1879."

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  1. What I find truly disturbing about this by Powercntrl · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...is not that someone is trying to scam buyers with unauthentic products. Fake Rolexes, junk laptops and a ton of other crap on eBay slips through the cracks. -1: Redundant. No, what I find truly disturbing is the fact that there are actually people interested in buying a product that contains a dead monkey's shrunken head. Eww.

    I think I'm gonna lose my lunch.

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  2. I want one by xee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bet the antique market hikes up the prices of these wonders. I'd like a hookah smoking monkey automaton, but dont want to have to pay through the nose for an "antique". Anyone know where I could buy a mokey smoking hookah?

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  3. Belongs on slash. by emkman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    read the history of automatons and youll be impressed. Plus, its a monkey smoking a hookah, how can you not want to see that?

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