Silver Swan Automaton

lol dux dont eet fish wtf

Ive been to this museum a few times, since its a half-hour drive from my hometown, this display is pretty impressive! youd have to see it up close to appreciate the attention to detail, the neck is made out of thousands of scale-like metal 'feathers' which give it flexibility. i believe there are also fish/cygnets, though i cant remember, its been some years...

this cant be created by english.

if im right, the neck is made of tin. i went to see it only yesterday...

What an extraordinary object! :D

What's the neck covered with? It looks like massive metal, but it wouldn't been able to move then?

That is stunning *gasp* She is beautiful

I used to live near to Bowes Museum where this is exhibited and was obssessed with it! As the story goes, James Cox had an entire museum of automata of similar quality and this is one of the only ones remaining! It apparently originally had an eighteen foot high crystal canopy on it as well. Such genius and talent is shown in this; and now we're excited by the latest exploits of Big Brother contestants! Sigh...

The 1982-1986 Ripley's Believe It or Not with host Jack Palance showed this piece. I could had sworn he stated that there is another one in Russian that does not work.

Thanks for sharing this--very good!

Hermoso!!!
Que detalles tan finos y que elegante precisión!.
Imita muy bien a la naturaleza misma!
Awwn, que encanto!.