Madame Zita Knows Your Future

For one penny, Madame Zita would tell you your future.Drop a coin into the machine, and the elaborately dressed female automaton would turn her head to retrieve a fortune before turning again to drop it down a chute for the waiting customer. With her other hand, she pulled the lever that dispensed the fortune card.More than a century later, Madame Zita is still telling fortunes and working for her keep. The original Roover Brothers machine, Lot 2281 in Morphy Auctions’ Oct. 16–17 Coi