Produced from 1906
Product number 206
Hand painted
Mechanism: spring
Dimensions approx: The frogs are long 4″ and wide 2.5″
Name: Jeu de péche à la grenouille sauteuse
He bought the idea for this toy at the Concours Lepine in 1905 from the inventor Mr. Celestin Gasselin.
This frog game is depicted and described in the French magazine: La Nature on page 581.
Mr. Celestin Gasselin named this toy: La Grenouille Récalsitrante
Number 9 is ” La Grenouille Récalsitrante” from Mr. Gasselin
And we see more well know toys: number 3 is the, by Martin collectors well known, “La Boule Mystérieuse” also an invention of Mr. Gasselin and produced by Fernand Martin, and number 2 is the “Le Champion” this is not a Martin but produced by Charles Rossignol
Invention of Mr. Celestin Gasselin shown at the 1905 Concours de lepine
Pictured and described in La Nature 1905 page 581
Free translation:
Mr. Gasselin, the inventor gives us a frog game that will be extremely cheap and will allow young people and even adults to spend happy evenings with it, it’s a matter of hanging up.
A ring hangs from the end of a wired rod and there is a frog in stamped tin, which you have to pick up with the ring.
But the frog has a hook from which it has to be picked up and on this is a lever with a spring that comes loose with a shock and makes the animal jump before it can be hooked.
The frogs are long 4″ and wide 2.5″
Mister Gasselin designed this toy with a ring on a fishing rod, Martin has pointed this out in a U shape hook on a fishing rod.
Discription on the box lid:
Nothing more amusing than this game which consists in fishing, un the frogs with the hook.
The winner will be the one who succeeds in hook up the greates number of frogs without allowing them to spring up.
INSTRUCTIONS: Set the spring of the frogs.