La Grosse Caisse – The Big Drum – number 29 from 1889

Produced from 1889
Product number unknown (In the books known to us, this toy has the Martin product number 29 which is not correct.)
Hand lacquered
Mechanism: Flywheel
Height approx. 12,2 cm/ 4,8 inches

When activated he walks and depicts the musician playing the cymbal with one hand and beating the drum with a mallet in his other hand.
On the second photo of the back, you can see the “rod” on his left side of his back that the movement transfers from the legs to the arms for movement of the cymbal and the drum stick

Here you can see that he used the same man of the Pousse – Pousse on this toy

Pictures courtesy Bertoia auctions

Part of the Martin advertising from 1897 pag 65 Annuaire officiel des jouets – Source gallica.

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