Clap trap best present this Christmas

[comanche 3,045]

My bestest present this year . Apparently I was like child all day .I did'nt put it down. Nobody (cept the person who gave it to me ) could understand my pleasure at being given a couple of bits of bent metal and a spring.

[OldTrapCollector 377]

My bestest present this year . Apparently I was like child all day .I did'nt put it down. Nobody (cept the person who gave it to me ) could understand my pleasure at being given a couple of bits of bent metal and a spring.

 

Nice trap Comanche!

 

What size is it??

 

OTC

[comanche 3,045]

My bestest present this year . Apparently I was like child all day .I did'nt put it down. Nobody (cept the person who gave it to me ) could understand my pleasure at being given a couple of bits of bent metal and a spring.

 

Nice trap Comanche!

 

What size is it??

 

OTC

 

just had a measure . When the bars are open (as in the picture ) it is 19 inches across.

Any info gratefully accepted as while i have a child-like appreciation of such things I'm not a serious collector . I would like to knit some new netting for it and have plenty of spare hemp but what size mesh? Or would you leave it as it is?

Edited December 26, 2008 by comanche

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I have it listed as a 'piege a filet' (net trap) in my old French trap catalogues.

 

I made some nets for the Young's Misterton bird traps of a similar design using 3/4 inch mesh board and fine irish linen cobblers thread and they came out nice. I think hemp would be too heavy for it.

 

I will have a look for a few pictures and that for you tomorrow if I get chance

 

OTC

[OldTrapCollector 377]

Nobody could understand my pleasure at being given a couple of bits of bent metal and a spring.

 

That sounds like the story of my life!!!

 

Mrs OTC has long since given up on me . . .

 

OTC

[Netter 0]

I have it listed as a 'piege a filet' (net trap) in my old French trap catalogues.

 

I made some nets for the Young's Misterton bird traps of a similar design using 3/4 inch mesh board and fine irish linen cobblers thread and they came out nice. I think hemp would be too heavy for it.

 

I will have a look for a few pictures and that for you tomorrow if I get chance

 

OTC

 

I've got some of this

 

 

 

Let me know if its any good

[comanche 3,045]

I have it listed as a 'piege a filet' (net trap) in my old French trap catalogues.

 

I made some nets for the Young's Misterton bird traps of a similar design using 3/4 inch mesh board and fine irish linen cobblers thread and they came out nice. I think hemp would be too heavy for it.

 

I will have a look for a few pictures and that for you tomorrow if I get chance

 

OTC

 

I've got some of this

 

 

 

Let me know if its any good

 

Thanks for the help/advice Netter and OTC. That linen thread looks like something my Mum has ,or at least had .I shall investgate .

[Guest foxyjo.]

I know nothing about traps at all, but I am intrigued... presumabley this is some sort of bird trap, cos of OTC's similar Misterton thingy... ...and if it is, how does it work?? And what sort of birds would you catch with it?

 

Sorry if I sound stupid, which undoubtedly I do, and if you can't be bothered to explain to a numpty, I quite understand, but I'd love to know!

[Tiercel 6,986]

These net traps arestill available for sale. Found one here.

 

http://www.ediloisir.com/fiche-14-60-557-1-0-9999.html

 

Shows a photo of the trap, that might help you.

[comanche 3,045]

I know nothing about traps at all, but I am intrigued... presumabley this is some sort of bird trap, cos of OTC's similar Misterton thingy... ...and if it is, how does it work?? And what sort of birds would you catch with it?

 

Sorry if I sound stupid, which undoubtedly I do, and if you can't be bothered to explain to a numpty, I quite understand, but I'd love to know!

 

 

Well OTC (or indeed lots of other folk )are better qualified to explain but here goes. You are certainly not a numpty for asking but my explanation may well put me in that class

 

Imagine both halves of the trap covered in fine netting. Then imagine the thing layed out with a piece of bait fixed to the centre of the trap. I've seen these with little treadles not ot unlike the trigger plates of some mousetraps. On a mouse-trap a bar flips over when the bait is touched and hits the mouse but on this bird trap the bar would've flicked over and trapped the bird under the netting. The bird would've been caught as if inside a big meshed clam-shell.

God ,I hope this made sense .

[Guest foxyjo.]

It does make sense!! Thank you very much for taking the trouble to explain!

[John Keswick 119]

Finaly, something better than a condom, a trap for the clap

 

Whoed have thunk it?

[kingfisher 0]

Finaly, something better than a condom, a trap for the clap

 

Whoed have thunk it?

:clapper:

[RatSnatcher 0]

Any chance of a video demonstration comanche, always nice to see a proper a trap in operation, maybe stick your left over carcass from the turkey in it

[OldTrapCollector 377]

Here you go Comanche -

 

Illustrations from a 1914 trap makers catalogue (Aurouze Paris) showing your trap. I can be sure because of the size and the additional bar above the spring on one side to fix the net away from the spring coils.

 

 

This is the same trap (and illustration) from a later 1925 catalogue showing the period it was made

 

 

That Irish thread that Netter has there is the same stuff I used to make my net - the original ones would have been handmade netting sheets cut down to fit the the trap but I have made them this way and by knitting direct to the trap for a bespoke net which looks better but is complicated to do. Please post pictures when it's done so I can see.

 

If I can be of further assistance please don't hesitate to ask

 

OTC