Greetings All.
Just got this wonderful old clock off of the Big Bay and I was really pleased with it, and thought I'd share it with you all. The seller advertised it as Franco Prussian War but I think it may be a tad earlier because of the date of the clock. Eight socket bayonets were used to put this together, along with a steel casing shaped like an artillery shell. The face of the clock is hand painted porcelain and is wound with a key. One of the fun aspects of it's construction is the means they used to secure the metal pieces together. Original musket vent cones, or nipples were used, two screwed together to hold the bayonets to one another and to the shell and base. The brass emblem affixed to the top of the shell is a French Engineer/Pioneer Shako plate, circa 1837-1870 but without the bursting bomb & unit number. The clock weighs about 18 pounds and I placed our 109 Baden pickelhaube (my MAX Show scoop-deville) next to it for sizing. Terri even wanted it placed in the Living Room of all places :queen:, now it has a new home here in the desert.
Larry
Just got this wonderful old clock off of the Big Bay and I was really pleased with it, and thought I'd share it with you all. The seller advertised it as Franco Prussian War but I think it may be a tad earlier because of the date of the clock. Eight socket bayonets were used to put this together, along with a steel casing shaped like an artillery shell. The face of the clock is hand painted porcelain and is wound with a key. One of the fun aspects of it's construction is the means they used to secure the metal pieces together. Original musket vent cones, or nipples were used, two screwed together to hold the bayonets to one another and to the shell and base. The brass emblem affixed to the top of the shell is a French Engineer/Pioneer Shako plate, circa 1837-1870 but without the bursting bomb & unit number. The clock weighs about 18 pounds and I placed our 109 Baden pickelhaube (my MAX Show scoop-deville) next to it for sizing. Terri even wanted it placed in the Living Room of all places :queen:, now it has a new home here in the desert.
Larry