Shelf or Mantel Animated
Shelf or Mantel Animated
3 Electric Mastercrafters Swinging Clocks
C.1800, Dutch, Movement and Dial, Animated, 1-day time and strike, 3 figures with arms that move as the clock ticks, titled SOLOMON'S VERDICT.
C.1830, Austrian, Grand Sonnerie mantel automaton, Maid at the Pump, 3-train, silk thread suspension, 1-day duration.
C.1878, F. Kroeber Clock Co., NY, ANGEL SWING No. 1, 8-Day timepiece, angel pendulum swings front to back.
Early German Animated Mantel Clock
F. Kroeber Clock Co., New York, "Angel Swing No. 1" 8 days, time only, walnut shelf clock, c1878
French Animated Dial Shelf Clock w/Cupid
French cast metal mantel clock with swinging cupid for pendulum and 8 day time and strike spring driven movement, c1890
French, Marti and Cie, 8-day time/strike automaton of two figures striking a bell in the tower. The heavy case appears to be white metal with a dark finish applied. The bell ringers do not actually strike the bell as the movement strikes a wire gong to
French, Waterfall Automaton, C.1840, with a small and well made silk-thread susp, bell strike movement. The twisty glass tube simulates water pouring from the lion's mouth. The automaton is a separate movement in the base of the clock, wound from the rear
Junghans, Germany, acrobat automaton oak 30 hours, shelf clock, c1900
Junghans, Germany, "Acrobat" model novelty, with automated figure, spring powered thirty hour two train movement, one train for time, the other for the performer, oak case with original finish, acrobat on trapeze in front of lithograph scene of the
Late 20th Century, Singing Bird Box, the dore case decorated with cobalt blue enamel with pink floral accents in the corners,
Mastercrafter "Lava" clock. The top of the line in this type clock.
Mastercrafter "Merry Go Round". Perhaps the best case of the four.
Mastercrafter "Waterfall". Very nice 11" high case, rustic wooded motif on front.
New Haven Clock Co., New Haven, Conn., "The Mountebank", 8 day, time and strike, rare automaton "Dancing Skeleton" novelty clock, c1905
Swinging Doll Dome Clock