Mantle cuckoo clock with 8-day movement.
The Junghans family lived on the Nekar River in Horb, Germany. The family name dates back to 1696. Once the largest clock company in the world, this Black Forest clock-making firm produced some of the most interesting and popular clocks ever made. In 1859, Erhard Junghans purchased land in Schramberg, to build an oil- seed mill. However, in 1861, the business was converted to make clock parts and later entire clocks. This particular cuckoo features an eight-day movement with the Junghans name and star logo embossed into the back plate. The case style and typical German heavy brass movement marks it as a quality piece that runs and cuckoos well. The cuckoo bird bows as he cuckoos the full hours and once on the half/hour. Two of the leaves on the top ornamentation have had some breaks and are solidly re-glued. Shelf cuckoo clocks often sell for twice the price of the more common wall cariety, but our policy is to offer clocks for an amount that usually lists them lower than others of the same high quality. This is one of the nicest of this type that we've found and will enhance any collection of Black Forest clocks. It will surely add a note of charm to the room in which it is displayed. PLEASE NOTE: There is a red SOLD tag on another clock (next to the shelf cuckoo). In our photograph, it looks like that tag is on this clock. That's just an optical illusion....at least until some luckey buyer purchases THIS one. After that, we'll put a sold tag onto this beauty too!! Height: 23 in. (58.42 cm) Depth: 9 in. (22.86 cm) Width: 14 in. (35.56 cm) Weight: 7
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