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Crawling Beetle
Ernst Paul LehmannLarge beetle, w/ dark green wings
- Model
- 431
- Type
- Aircraft
- Topic
- Animals
- Country of manufacture
- Germany
- Mechanism
- Clockwork
- Movement
- Walks while flapping wings
- Materials
- Tin
- Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
- 9x9x4.5
- Condition
- Reasonable
- Manufactured
- 1898 – 1935
- Box
- Good
Research notes
Toy invented by Carl Adam (pat. DRP 78360 March, 21 1894), produced w/ his logo in 1894-1898; produced in various colours; a later version is EPL 823, produced from 1936-7 (then no materials were available)
Featured in
- Lehmann Toys — p. 129
- Lexicon der Deutschen Blechspielzeug-Industrie — p. 235
