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    Posted 3 years ago

    skfrazier
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    Hi,
    I'm hoping the clock experts can weigh in with any thoughts about this clock. My grandparents got it in Germany, but I don't recall when. There is a plaque at the bottom in German, and this is what it translates to:

    "mistress administrative director k stein on the 25th anniversary of the board of directors of the general local health insurance fund 
    koln-mulheim on january 1, 1925"

    Koln-Mulheim is a train station in Cologne, Germany. I am wondering if this was possible in the train station at one time?

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    1. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Hi again, skfrazier. :-)

      Beautiful clock. You're allowed up to four pictures per post, so perhaps you could add three more, including a close up of the engraved plaque.

      Hopefully CW user Bruce99 will see this post, and have some advice.
    2. skfrazier, 3 years ago
      Keramikos, thank you! I added more photos.
    3. keramikos, 3 years ago
      skfrazier, Thanks for the extra photos. :-)

      I particularly wanted to get a better look at the plaque, because I was curious whether it had been inscribed in German script. It turns out that it isn't; it's in a relatively plain modern font, although some of the letters do have umlauts over them.

      In case you don't know what those are, they're those two little dots over certain characters. It changes the pronunciation.

      If you don't have a keyboard that can easily write umlauts, the letters can be written with an "e" character after the character that is supposed to have an umlaut. Therefore, an umlauted "a" becomes "ae," an umlauted "o" becomes "oe," and an umlauted "u" becomes "ue."

      Thus:

      HERRN VERWALTUNGSDIREKTOR K. STEIN
      ZUM 25 JAERIGEN DIENSTJUMILAEUM
      DER VORSTAND
      DER ALLGEMEINEN ORTSKRANKENKASSE
      KOELN-MUELHEIM, DEN 1 JANUARY 1925

      Your translation was essentially correct, except that "HERRN" doesn't mean mistress, but rather mister. It's those pesky grammatical cases:

      https://www.rocketlanguages.com/forum/german-grammar/difference-between-herr-and-herrn-in-german

      Koeln-Muelheim is a district of Koeln (AKA Cologne):

      https://the-red-relocators.com/relocation-guides-germany/real-estate-germany/cologne-district-profiles/cologne-muelheim/

      In case you were wondering about that "Schäl Sick" insult:

      https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%25C3%25A4l_Sick&prev=search&pto=aue

      It's a bit curious that there is no maker name on the face of the clock. You might have to look at the actual clockworks for clues.

      I'm still hoping that Bruce99 will weigh in with some of his expertise.
    4. skfrazier, 3 years ago
      Do you know how I look at the clockworks without disturbing anything?
    5. keramikos, 3 years ago
      skfrazier, I don't, unfortunately. :-)

      That would be the province of somebody with actual expertise.

      You could try using one of those telescoping dental mirrors and a flashlight to investigate a bit.

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