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Clock Identification Please

  • 20-08-2016 11:03AM
    #1
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,040 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm trying to get any info on the following clock.

    Can anyone identify the maker or roughly where or when it may have been made? There doesn't appear to be any distinguishing marks on it apart from the word "Foreign" under the 6.
    I have noticed similar clocks online made by Friedrich Mauthe, Schwenningen but I don't know if my one is.

    When working normally (it's in bubble wrap currently), it chimes on the hour and half hour.

    Any ballpark on value (it's not for sale!)?

    https://goo.gl/photos/TNpr42LisTvPN6cn9


    I want to get it looked at in the next few months to make sure the internals are all working fine and get it a bit of a clean.
    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    The face of a clock like that would normally show the dealer's name rather then the actual clock maker. Back in the 1800s and early 1900s dealers would either buy clocks whole and sell them on, or sometimes buy case, movement, dial....put their name on the dial and assemble and sell.
    So it is not any marking on the face that is important - but on the movement.
    If you look closely at the backplate of the movement you should see a symbol or name or some kind of identifer. That will tell us who made the movement and could allow dating of the clock with relative accuracy. Some symbols will show awards won by the movement maker and that is how we can date.

    As to value - it is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it so very hard to guess from the pics.

    Edit: The clock type is a 'granddaughter clock' so could be later than the 1930s...


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