SCARCE ANTIQUE TIN TOY c.1894 Carl Adam Windup Beetle PRE DATES LEHMANN Tinplate

Description: Carl Adam was born on January 20, 1864 in Osterode, East Prussia, the son of the painter Carl Adam. After attending high school, he devoted himself to technical studies and an apprenticeship as a watchmaker in Koenigsberg (today named Kaliningrad). As early as 1887, at the age of 23, he registered his first patent (along with his brother Richard): DRP 41 882 “striking and repeater mechanisms for watches” (note: a milestone in the field of watch development). How he discovered his love for toys remained his secret, as apparently no one ever asked him. In any case, in 1893 he founded a tin toys factory under the name “First East Prussian Patent Toy Factory of Koenigsberg, owner Carl Adam.” At the same time, he registered his trademark “Dancer.”Carl Adam was a brilliant inventor but, as it turned out, a poor businessman.In 1897, thru lack of financial support, the business was closed down .Carl Adam completely withdrew from the toy business and opened a watch and gold shop in Koenigsberg.In 1897, when father Lewin Minkowski and son Max took over the tin toys factory of Carl Adam, it was terribly in debt.Only a year later in 1898 the entire factory of Lewin Minkowski & Sohn, including stock, patents, materials, and customer lists, was sold for 15,600 marks to Ernst Paul Lehmann in Brandenburg.The purchase included the inventions not yet patented by Carl Adam, which Ernst Paul Lehmann filed under his own name at the German Patent Office...... OFFERED HERE IS MY: REAL ANTIQUE AUTOMATON / MECHANICAL TIN TOY c.1894 YES..... NOW AROUND 130 YEARS OLD ! INCREDIBLY RARE, FIRST ISSUE OF A CLOCKWORK WALKING & WING FLAPPING BEETLE MORE USUALLY KNOWN AS THE LEHMANN SCARAB BEETLE, THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PREDECESSOR..... THE RIGHTS TO MANUFACTURE, ULTIMATELY ACQUIRED BY ERNST PAUL LEHMANN, IN THE LATTER 1890's. TINPLATE CONSTRUCTION CLOCKWORK / WIND UP MECHANICAL MOVEMENT ...... WITH ORIGINAL FIXED-HEAD KEY WINDER A SUPER INGENIOUS MOVEMENT; THE BEETLE MOVES ABOUT WALKING, AND FLAPPING HIS WINGS measures about 10 cm displays with the scarce appropriate design mark, of Carl Adam's dancer figure; not the later issued model's Lehmann EPL marks etc... lovely tin litho printing, with attractive and naturalistic colours displays so nicely (i keep him under a glass dome, but this is not included in the sale). These scarce earliest beetles rarely appear, and even less so, in such great, fully intact working order. (i did not notice another on ebay #404532815396, in the more usual lesser state, including the often broken / missing legs (the beetles should all have six legs). A REALLY LOVELY ANTIQUE TOY, RARELY SEEN AND WITH SUCH A GREAT ACTION. please take a good close look at all the images i've added, as these also form part of the description...and i'm parting with my CARL ADAM CRAWLING BEETLE as is / as shown and without returns...thanks. PLEASE REMEMBER YOU ARE BIDDING TO PURCHASE MY MECHANICAL CARL ADAM FLAPPING BEETLE ONLY....THANKS SPECIAL DELIVERY within U.K £12overseas tracked confirmed delivery listed at £36 (refunding if any over payment, once posted) international buyers are responsible for payment of any further possible vat/customs taxes if located in U.S.A ....other than possible local sales tax, which may be imposed by your ebay at check out (these are not added by me).....there will be no further tax to pay. IF TRACKED CONFIRMED DELIVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE TO YOUR LOCATION,I MAY NEED TO CANCEL SALE...BY BIDDING YOU AGREE & UNDERSTAND THIS. thank you. CARL ADAM ... SCARAB BEETLE ... INSECT ... BUG .... MECHANICAL TOY ... ANTIQUE ... 1890's ...VICTORIAN ... EDWARDIAN . .NOT A LEHMANN BEETLE ... .mechanical figure ...wind up...clockwork...german tin toy .... automate...automaton ...tin toy... uncle sam ... blech...tole...latta...tinplate...vintage...antique......similar period toy makers included vichy ... lambert... roullet decamps ... lehmann...distler... carette ... kellermann ... tippco...karl bub...fischer ... gunthermann ... gely...orobr...jep...charles rossignol...fernand martin...mettoy...william brittains...Marx...Charlotte Clark... charlie chaplin ... Chien...strauss...disney... cars ... motorcycles ... bikes ... stilt walking ... elephants ... peacock ... tractor ...clowns ... childhood toys & juvenalia

Price: 690 GBP

Location: Thetford

End Time: 2024-12-24T02:36:42.000Z

Shipping Cost: 45.09 GBP