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Crank me up! The mechanical toys of the municipal museums of Anderlecht<\/h3>\n
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[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]During the time that the beguinage is closed for renovations, Erasmus House is shining a spotlight each month on an unusual object or set of objects from the municipal museum\u2019s historical, archaeological, folk art, and religious collection. Here we show you three mechanicals toys originally from Germany. <\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”top” content_text_aligment=”left”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”6″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1661776883767-7eb82d97-14c4-1″ include=”16829,16826,16820″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]1. Vielmetter clown
\nNuremberg, Germany
\nLithographed tinplate
\nca. 1910
\n12 x 12 x 12,5 cm
\nInv. BEG 6104<\/p>\n

2. Violinist clown
\nCranked automaton that mimes the movements of a violinist.
\nNuremberg, Germany
\nTinplate, lightweight felt
\nca. 1930
\n12 x 7 x 5 cm
\nInv. BEG 6103<\/p>\n

3. Mouse with a beer stein
\nCranked automaton that drinks from a beer stein.
\nNuremberg, Germany
\nFelt, metal
\nca. 1930
\n10 x 2,8 x 3 cm
\nInv. BEG 6102[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Even though automatons have existed since ancient times, such objects became fashionable with nobility and the wealthy in the Renaissance. In particular favour was the humanoid robot capable of walking and imagined by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 that was designed to replace soldiers on the front. The manufacturing of automatons reached its apogee at the time of the Industrial Revolution, with mechanical toys at the forefront of this trend.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”44px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The history of mechanical toys<\/h6>\n

Static electricity made its grand entr\u00e9e in the world of toys in the 17th<\/sup> century. Children watched with delight as piece of gold leaf moved on a metal dish held by a jumping jack. In the course of the 19th<\/sup> century animated toys became increasingly complex. The first one, the \u201cL\u2019Intr\u00e9pide B\u00e9b\u00e9<\/em>\u201d (Fearless Baby<\/em>) walking doll, was created by Jean Roullet and Ernest Descamps in Paris around 1865. Mechanical toys became increasingly diversified in the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> century, the golden age of automatons, with specimens ranging from snake charmers to cows that gave milk. German toys flooded the market at the time because of their indisputable technological superiority and a fully mechanised production process that included the painting step, so that they could be produced on an assembly line. One-third of the toys on the Belgian and French markets at the turn of the 20th<\/sup> century thus came from Germany. The most highly reputed toy manufacturers were established in Nuremberg, and three of the items on display this month at Erasmus House come from this Bavarian city. A large number of mechanical toys reached our area, for post-war collectors saw in them low-priced, easy-to-store objects of value and countless people began collecting them.<\/p>\n

The automatons of the Municipal Museums of Anderlecht<\/h6>\n

All of these objects date back to the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

The artist clown, also called the Vielmetter clown after its inventor, could do several different sketches \u2013 portraits of Louis XIV, Napoleon, Bismarck, and Queen Victoria; a cockatoo; \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d; and so on \u2013 thanks to interchangeable cams (small discs) that converted the concentric movements of the mechanism initiated by the crank into straight-line movements that directed the arm. The other German automatons are a violinist clown and a mouse with a beer stein that could take a few steps in parallel with the movements of their arms. These two items, which date back to the 1930s, come from the Schuco workshop, which was famous for its miniature cars and had been based in Nuremberg since 1912.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

In the Erasmus House we show you three mechanicals toys originally from Germany.<\/h5>\n
Text<\/h5>\n

Meggy Chaidron<\/p>\n

Acknowledgements<\/h5>\n

Zahava Seewald
\nC\u00e9line Bultreys
\nAnne Deckers<\/p>\n

Your visit<\/a><\/h5>\n
More info about the mechanical toys<\/a><\/h5>\n

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