Produced from 1879
Product number : Unknown (In the books known to us, this toy has the number 03, but the latest discoveries show that this toy is one of the toys with probably no number )
Hand-lacquered
Rubber band drive
Hight approx. 14 cm/ 5.5 inches
The monkey is made of wire coverd with down
This toy is very rare and practically unknown to collectors.
This image is from a private collection and placed in the book by Frédéric Marchand: The history of Martin mechanical toys
Martin started in 1875 with his first attempts to make toys but in 1878 the first real toy was a real swimming fish with patent number 128445 from Jan-01-1879
He has used this patent number more often and therefore appears regularly with his toys.
Some examples are: This swing, the fish, the boat.
The drive is in one of the poles, the winding is done via a handle at the bottom, in the pole is the rubber band and at the very top the transmission.
In this way he has made more, a few examples are the Le Trapeze 1885 and the Le Sonneur Endiablé 1885