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This bejeweled Swiss ‘gun’ hides a surprise you would never expect (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

Around 1815 the Geneva workshop of Frères Rochat created a handful of "pistols" that actually concealed an extremely complicated music box and an automaton bird that pops out of the barrels.

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