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The Ice Hole Clam Spearer by Heath Robinson

An ingenious, though perhaps rather complicated device to catch clams through ice in the frozen north, part of a series of drawings entitled, aVery Patent Aides to Sport'. A piece of toast tempts an underwater clam, who, the moment it attempts to take a bite will have triggered a string, which sounds a bell which in turn alerts the hunter to cut another string and send a spear diving down to kill its prey

Picture No
13990319
Media ID
45426901
Size
3600px x 5008px (1.8MB)
Credit
ILN / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by William Heath Robinson in The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News', 18 August 1928, page 411
Date
1928

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Aides Amusing Catching Clam Clams Complicated Contraption Contraptions Convoluted Frozen Ingenious Inventions Patent String


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