Clockwork toy
Fernand Martin
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1902
Materials
Tin plate and fabric
Measurements
203mm (height)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659929
Summary
Tin plate clockwork drunkard with painted facial features and hair (circa 1902). Wearing a brown fabric jacket and brown check fabric trousers. Black painted tin plate shoes, grey painted tin plate top hat which sits at an angle on his tilted head. In his right hand he holds a bottle and in his left a beaker. A metal key (attached to a clockwork mechanism around his waist) protrudes from his left hand side.
Marks and inscriptions
Top of hat: inside a circle: FM [ ]
Makers and roles
Fernand Martin , manufacturer