Posted 10 years ago
blackinky
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This is my latest acquisition from an Antiques fair, joining my collection of clocks (23 and counting ;all chiming and cuckooing away !) I don"t know anything about it other than it was made in Paris, and possibly in the 1860s by the letters on the patent. There is a bee stamped on the movement, and the capital letters B.B or possibly B.R stamped on one leg. The figure is of a girl with a little bird sitting on one hand and in the other she appears to be holding what looks like a birds nest with an egg in it and some flowers.
Is she a representation of a historical or mythical figure or is she just a little french girl?
I fell in love with this clock when I saw it, and would love to know a little of it's history. Is there anyone out there who is able to enlighten me?
The history of French Clocks is a notoriously difficult thing to do. Clock making in France was a cottage industry with a lot of artisans and craftsmen casing manufactured movements. The hairlines in your porcelain dial look a little odd. This also appears to be a bronze finished Spelter casting. It's hard to know for sure, but bronze castings are usually finished to a finer detail with no casting seams left behind. Perhaps if you could post a clear, well lit photo of the movement some collector might be able to tell you more about it. In any case, it's a very nice clock. Thanks for sharing it.
Also, many records were destroyed in the European Wars which makes finding particular clock "models" more difficult.
Thank you for the information, also do you know whether these types of clock would have had glass over the dial, as I can't see anywhere a bezel would have been attached. I wondered whether it was originally protected by a glass dome? Looking at other similar clocks, a few don't have glass, but am unsure whether they were made like that or whether it's been lost.
No. Sorry. Not familiar with this clock model at all.