Wednesday 25 May 2011

'Shipwreck"

This is a coin operated automaton or collecting box.
for donations from visitors to the folk Museum in Helston Cornwall UK. Its about Henry Trengrouse (1772-1854)inventor of the rocket life-saving apparatus. Its used for Shipwrecks near the coast.
It took 2 months to make it.
It's 80 cm High ( 32 Inches ) in Wood and Metal.