Vintage Tarzan Wetsuit Display Model by Manufacturer: Beuchat International - Rare Deep Sea Diving In-Store Marketing Puppet
1960s - Tarzan Wetsuit Display Model by Manufacturer: Beuchat International, est. 1934 of France
The figure printed with the Beuchat Spearfish Logo and Beuchat, Marseille, France. This wetsuit began selling in 1963 and became a staple of the brand collection as seen with Jacques Cousteau wearing this exact model of wetsuit from the French brand on his many expeditions.
A very rare piece of in-store marketing material, this puppet would have sat in diving stores throughout France to display how the wetsuit would look. This puppet is incredibly rare due to their being a very limited number of retail outlets selling wet suits in France though the 60s and 70s that this puppet would have been made for. The last one we could find was sold at Sothebys in 2014.
Description below is from Sotheby's UK selling this wetsuit puppet in their 2014 auction:
Catalogue Note: Beuchat was founded in Marseille in 1934 by Georges Beuchat and remains based there to this day. Beuchat was an early enthusiast and pioneer of undersea diving, the companies early success was consolidated by the invention in 1947 of the first speargun the ‘Tarzan’, in 1953 of the first Isothermic wetsuit and in 1958 of the Compensator mask. The iconic Tarzan wetsuit arrived in 1963, the apogee of Beuchat’s creativity and was beloved by luminaries such as Jacques Cousteau and Frederic Dumas.
This puppet is certainly for the deep sea diving enthusiast.
Condition: Please see all photos, There are some small holes in the rubber wetsuit throughout the entire suit and one slightly larger tear on the back. There are no missing pieces of rubber that we can see. We do believe his is missing his original flippers which appear to have fallen off the soles of the feet.
Material: Rubber
Sizes:
Tall: 56cm
Wide: 25cm
Deep: 15cm
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