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Keith Newstead

English automata maker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ98763923 ↗
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Keith Newstead (4 March 1956 - 8 November 2020) was an English automata maker. He was considered one of the most pre-eminent makers of automata in the United Kingdom.

His work was exhibited globally, including the Exploratorium, the Eden Project, and the Tokyo Toy Museum.

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“Keith Newstead” enters the record as english automata maker. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keith, Newstead and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keith Newstead” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.