E.P. Lehmann No. 425 "The Balky Mule" Clockwork Automaton, G...
E.P. Lehmann No. 425 "The Balky Mule" Clockwork Automaton, Germany, circa 1907–1915, a well-known and highly characterful early German mechanical toy by Ernst Paul Lehmann, comprising a grey flock-covered donkey drawing a two-wheeled tinplate cart occupied by a clown driver, cart is constructed in painted and lithographed tinplate and fitted with large decorated wheels featuring colourful circus-clown imagery, the clown retains his painted tinplate head and limbs, black hat, shaped collar and red cloth tunic, seated above the concealed spring-driven mechanism, donkey is formed in articulated metal and retains much of its original grey flocked covering together with movable legs, ears and fabric tail, fine reins connect the animal to the driver, the rear panel retains the original coloured Lehmann label depicting a clown and marked "MADE IN GERMANY", No. 425, together with U.S. patent dates 12 May 1903 and 22 January 1907. The lithographed wheels also carry Lehmann trademark devices.* Literature: A classic example of Lehmann's celebrated comic automata, combining sophisticated mechanical movement with highly decorative lithographed tinplate and characterful modelling.
[ translate ]E.P. Lehmann No. 425 "The Balky Mule" Clockwork Automaton, Germany, circa 1907–1915, a well-known and highly characterful early German mechanical toy by Ernst Paul Lehmann, comprising a grey flock-covered donkey drawing a two-wheeled tinplate cart occupied by a clown driver, cart is constructed in painted and lithographed tinplate and fitted with large decorated wheels featuring colourful circus-clown imagery, the clown retains his painted tinplate head and limbs, black hat, shaped collar and red cloth tunic, seated above the concealed spring-driven mechanism, donkey is formed in articulated metal and retains much of its original grey flocked covering together with movable legs, ears and fabric tail, fine reins connect the animal to the driver, the rear panel retains the original coloured Lehmann label depicting a clown and marked "MADE IN GERMANY", No. 425, together with U.S. patent dates 12 May 1903 and 22 January 1907. The lithographed wheels also carry Lehmann trademark devices.* Literature: A classic example of Lehmann's celebrated comic automata, combining sophisticated mechanical movement with highly decorative lithographed tinplate and characterful modelling.
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