Discovery and Dispersal of the Holden Collection in Adelaide, Australia.

[gameswat]

First time I visited Bob many years ago we played the Yacht Race and after quite a few minutes we both abandoned the game about half way as our arms were getting tired! The jet of air is so tiny you had to be very specific at aiming it into the small sail to make the boat move. Even better than playing was opening the cashbox door

[bryans fan]

Thank you so much for sharing this information with us, it is so important that it is put down on paper, and it appears that you are the person best able to do this, apart from Rory.

[13rebel]

Thank you very much Bob for all this well written, interesting and informative information.

[mclemore]

An identical rare Avery scale ended up in the east coast of the United States and then was put on eBay maybe ten years ago? Since it was the only one I've ever seen I bid what I thought was a very strong number for it and I still lost the auction. It went to a European collector.

The two mermaid castings that have shown up... the one on eBay, and the one at Morphy Auctions, can never be used to make a convincing machine. I examined one of them closely last week. It has no back, and I'm not sure what it is made out of but it isn't cast iron (non-magnetic). I didn't look at it long enough to see if it was aluminum or resin. It's only molded on one side, the back of the mermaid (back side of castings is very rough if not stringy). As far as being copied years ago from one of the ones Jasper ended up with, that would answer the how. Jasper's mermaids are now with our Penny Arcadia collection in Los Angeles BTW.