The latest automata edition from Fi Henshall features a beautiful but hungry bird, intent on devouring the book ‘Beasts’ by R C Bird. Great style and movement. This piece will…
Paul Spooner’s latest piece in his series of machines which draw forever is a homage to the famous Chess Playing Turk automaton. The New Turk is built on the standard…
Paul Spooner’s latest work features a complicated mechanism which draws the infinity symbol. The story of Clever Hans is pretty well known. There’s a good account on Wikipedia with valuable…
A great collectors item from Fourteen Balls Toy Company. A pair of tiny hand carved crowned royals, which vibrate lovingly on their spring mechanisms. Both pieces are number 1 of…
A new edition of Walter Ruffler’s book. The book contains 24 pages of theory and 14 construction kits. 8 of the construction kits are for individual mechanical principles, and 6…
A new piece from Paul Spooner (2011) This beady eyed crow blinks as the turning handle alerts him to the presence of your hand, which he then follows as it…
A great piece from Carlos Zapata from 2001, which was part of a small edition. Turn the handle and the oarsman vigorously rows with his single oar boat, down the…
A beautiful piece from Carlos Zapata, 2005. Turn the handle to give some well-deserved applause – a lovely congratulatory gift. Made of carved and painted wood, metal handle. Height 15…
This is a rare piece from Arthur Ganson. The mechanism is elegant and surprising, the shape of the cam determining how frequently the little man is nudged on the head,…
