Shelf or Mantel Cuckoo
Shelf or Mantel Cuckoo
A. Frankfeld and Co., Philadelphia, shelf cuckoo, 8-day, spring driven, Waterbury movement, case with restoration to carvings. C.1870.
Attributed to Johann Baptiste Beha, Eisenbach, Germany, "No. 508" model shelf cuckoo, 50 hour, time and strike with calling cuckoo bird, spring driven movement in an elaborately carved case replete with foliate, vine, and fence decorations. The wooden
Black Forest Fusee Shelf Cuckoo Clock W/ Birds
Black Forest, Germany, shelf cuckoo, 50 hour, time and strike with cuckoo bird, spring driven wood plate movement in a wood case with oak veneer on molded feet with stepped chamfered base, trimmed with carved fretwork and applied wood ornaments, bone
C.1870, A. Frankfield, NY, Shelf Cuckoo, 8-day time and strike, walnut case.
C.1890, German, Black Forest 1-day time and strike gothic style shelf cuckoo and quail clock (not quarter strike). The quail sounds his triple chirp before each cuckoo.
German shelf cuckoo clock with 30-hour time and strike movement and bone hands and articulated cuckoo bird, c1890
German, Ges Geschutzt, 8-day shelf cuckoo clock with large/robust going barrel movement. C.1880.
German, J. B. Beha, Eisenbach, MODEL 512 shelf cuckoo in walnut, with wooden plated 8-day double fusee movement. C.1880.
German, Large Black Forest shelf cuckoo, 2-fusee, brass mov't, 8-day duration, forest scene with deer at base and large cuckoo bird at top.
Germany, 8 day, shelf cuckoo, time and strike fusee movement with wooden plates and brass wheels, in a finely carved case, possibly by Ketterer.
Germany, Johann Baptiste Beha, 8 day, time and strike spring driven, brass fusee movement shelf cuckoo. See Justin Miller's book, Appendix A, Beha Catalog 1895-1900, page 7, No. 512
Germany, large shelf cuckoo, the case carved with Alpine landscape incorporating a cabin, trees and various animals, turned wooden dial with applied Roman numerals, 8 day, two train brass spring driven movement, the strike train with a fusee
Germany, large shelf cuckoo, the Gothic inspired oak case of architectural form, with castellated parapet above a molded arch with applied, pierced carvings, supported by slender twist turned (barley twist) columns at the corners. The Roman numeral,
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