A toy automaton that makes drawings when cranked. An interchangeable double-cam in the base controls the vertical and horizontal displacement of the pencil. At least 24 cams were available, including a man with a parrot, a monkey, Napoleon and Queen Victoria. This one draws a rooster. These were a gift given only to especially good Vielmetter customers. The patent may have been purchased from the English inventor and toy maker James Walker, who 15 years earlier manufactured a similar automaton using an identical mechanism.

See Athelstan and Kathleen Spilhaus, Mechanical Toys (London: Robert Hale, 1989), 21–22