FERDINAND MARTIN “THE PERFECT FISHERMAN”
This fantastic antique toy is the MARTIN THE PERFECT FISHERMAN which is offered to you from the “PA TOYS OF TIMES PAST” collection. Extraordinary clockwork action on this early angler toy includes forward and back fishing motion as well as side to side, c. 1908, "Au Parfait Pecheur." | 9" h. | Fish is common replacement, some staining to clothing, otherwise all original in (Exc. Cond.)
Here is the little fisherman: seated comfortably at the edge of an imaginary watercourse, he throws his line to the left, the current, or rather the mechanism, takes him back to the right, along the flow of the water; then suddenly the fisherman picks it up, throws it to the left again and so on. The mechanism is easy to understand: when released, spring A activates a series of gears controlled by an transmission via the connecting rod B and the rod T it gives the fisherman’s body a back and forth movement. (See Photo)
Martin was already working on an idea for a fisherman in 1906, he has already used a fisherman in his film, he took the “Le Pochard” ( the drunk) for it, gave him a sitting position and a fishing rod in the left hand where the drinking cup would normally be.
This fantastic antique toy is the MARTIN THE PERFECT FISHERMAN which is offered to you from the “PA TOYS OF TIMES PAST” collection. Extraordinary clockwork action on this early angler toy includes forward and back fishing motion as well as side to side, c. 1908, "Au Parfait Pecheur." | 9" h. | Fish is common replacement, some staining to clothing, otherwise all original in (Exc. Cond.)
Here is the little fisherman: seated comfortably at the edge of an imaginary watercourse, he throws his line to the left, the current, or rather the mechanism, takes him back to the right, along the flow of the water; then suddenly the fisherman picks it up, throws it to the left again and so on. The mechanism is easy to understand: when released, spring A activates a series of gears controlled by an transmission via the connecting rod B and the rod T it gives the fisherman’s body a back and forth movement. (See Photo)
Martin was already working on an idea for a fisherman in 1906, he has already used a fisherman in his film, he took the “Le Pochard” ( the drunk) for it, gave him a sitting position and a fishing rod in the left hand where the drinking cup would normally be.
This fantastic antique toy is the MARTIN THE PERFECT FISHERMAN which is offered to you from the “PA TOYS OF TIMES PAST” collection. Extraordinary clockwork action on this early angler toy includes forward and back fishing motion as well as side to side, c. 1908, "Au Parfait Pecheur." | 9" h. | Fish is common replacement, some staining to clothing, otherwise all original in (Exc. Cond.)
Here is the little fisherman: seated comfortably at the edge of an imaginary watercourse, he throws his line to the left, the current, or rather the mechanism, takes him back to the right, along the flow of the water; then suddenly the fisherman picks it up, throws it to the left again and so on. The mechanism is easy to understand: when released, spring A activates a series of gears controlled by an transmission via the connecting rod B and the rod T it gives the fisherman’s body a back and forth movement. (See Photo)
Martin was already working on an idea for a fisherman in 1906, he has already used a fisherman in his film, he took the “Le Pochard” ( the drunk) for it, gave him a sitting position and a fishing rod in the left hand where the drinking cup would normally be.