A clockwork desk or counter service bell in a substantial yellow-green uranium glass mount (very reactive to UV light). It stands approximately 10cm high with a 8½cm wide base and weighs 532 grams. I’m not sure whether the glass is free blown and cut or blow moulded or press moulded.
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The bell has a plated metal top (which presumably would be pressed to activate the clockwork ringing movement). The clockwork movement has no obvious identifying marks.
I imagine this dates from the somewhere between 1840 and 1880.
I have seen several 19th century inkwells or inkstands in this chunky yellow-green uranium glass, sometimes with metal inserts or lids, but the glass was almost always cut to shape rather than pressed or blow moulded.
Has anyone seen something similar in other colours or perhaps with a marked clockwork movement or metal bell top, please?
Any more information welcome.
Fred.