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(Automaton Chess Player)

Maelzel's Exhibition, Concert Hall. Boston: The Evening Gazette Office, [1833]

Broadside (565 x 220 mm). Numerous fonts, text within Greek Key pattern border, mounted on paper; minor marginal soiling. Mounted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas; not examine out of frame. 

"Invented by De Kempelin, improved by J. Maelzel"

According to this broadside, "The Chess Player has withstood the first Players of Europe and America, and excited universal admiration. He moves his head, eyes lips, and hands, with the greatest facility, and distinctly pronounces the word 'Echee,' (the French word signifying 'Check') when necessary. If a mis-move is made, he perceives and rectifies it." 

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 183