Germany, shelf cuckoo with sentry automata, carved wooden architectural case of Gothic design, molded base with pierced railing enclosing the structure; the building with guard shelters, turrets, and crenellated parapet, and Turkish guard marching back
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24 October 2024
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very good overall, small piece of molding missing at base, rear right, railing with split, minor bumps and dings, merlon caps may be replacements, guard repainted, dial now with painted numerals, hands good, ticks, strikes, and cuckoos, sentry functional
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R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts
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Germany, shelf cuckoo with sentry automata, carved wooden architectural case of Gothic design, molded base with pierced railing enclosing the structure; the building with guard shelters, turrets, and crenellated parapet, and Turkish guard marching back and forth between the shelters as the clock runs, Roman numeral wooden dial, pierced bone hands, 30 hour brass time and strike movement, with carved, painted cuckoo very good overall, small piece of molding missing at base, rear right, railing with split, minor bumps and dings, merlon caps may be replacements, guard repainted, dial now with painted numerals, hands good, ticks, strikes, and cuckoos, sentry functional
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