Most people play with dolls, figures and replicas as toys when they are young. Some dolls are simple stuffed animals with plastic heads, and others are action figures complete with body armor and weapons. Certain dolls are exquisite works of visual art and engineering.
L’Oiseleur (The Bird Trainer), a 4-ft-tall automaton doll, comes complete with sword, flute, pair of singing birds, and embroidered Renaissance-Era clothing. The expensive doll plays the flute, playing Marche des Rois by Georges Bizet. This amazing doll does not run on electricity or any motors but spring-driven cogs and gears.
The asking price for this most expensive doll is $6,250,000, yes 6.25 million US dollars. The price has to justify the 2,340 gilt or polished-steel parts and over 15,000 hours in a Swiss workshop that it took to create this extraordinary figure.
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