c.1905 Carette, Flywheel Driven Gun Boat
Extraordinary tin litho and brass plated German gunboat. Driven by inertia driven lead flywheel "motor. Superbly crafted with two rotating brass deck cannons with embossed base, brass plated smokestack, and brass plated hand rails. Deck was lithoed to resemble wood planked flooring. Six below deck cannons lithoed on each side of the hull. Features two rear tin plated disc drive wheels and large single undulating bow whee which provides realistic up and down wave bobbing motion. Referenced in Jacques Milt and Robert Forbes book, Toy Boats, 1870-1955, A Pictorial History, pg. 85. Size: 9-1/2" (24cm). Sold: Mar. 2007
Price Sold: $ 126
