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Title: Glass Children's Clock Cases + German movements
Post by: auliya on October 08, 2010, 03:18:05 AM

I have 2 German clock cases, clear/satin glass, I think they are childrens clocks as they have quite childlike patterns, one a rabbit and grass and flowers, the other a story book type of town. The one clock still in place is a Mercedes brand, Made in Germany. They are both very heavy and art deco in style.
I was hoping someone might know the maker of the cases, and an approximate date

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Many thanks
cheers
auliya

Title: Re: German Glass Children's Clock Cases
Post by: auliya on October 12, 2010, 08:07:29 PM

I hope it is okay to give this a bump - it had fallen to the end of page three with no response. I am not hopeful that anyone will recognise them, I have asked far and wide with no luck, but you never know!
thanks
auliya

Title: Re: German Glass Children's Clock Cases
Post by: pamela on October 12, 2010, 08:49:51 PM

Hi Auliya,
never saw anything comparable here, also nothing in catalogues known. German clockwork could have been imported everywhere on the planet. Where are you located please?

 :rn:

Title: Re: German Glass Children's Clock Cases
Post by: auliya on October 13, 2010, 01:10:45 AM

Hi Pamela,
I am in Queensland, Australia. We didn't have a huge glass manufacturing industry here, so I don't think they are Australian. We do have a large migrant population though, so they could have come from anywhere, as you say. I have removed the clock workings to clean the glass (it is corroded and not working anyway) and have taken a couple more photos.

cheers
auliya

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Title: Re: German Glass Children's Clock Cases
Post by: antiquerose123 on October 13, 2010, 02:10:54 AM

Is the Clock generic?

As i found a Ceramic clock here with the name Mercedes, and made in Germany (clock part only) so that info might not help us at all. 

http://www.rubylane.com/item/519384-Clx200097/Ex78ceptional-Dresden-Rococo-Spring-Wind


No marks anywhere on the rest of the item??

Title: Re: German Glass Children's Clock Cases
Post by: auliya on October 13, 2010, 02:37:13 AM

Yes, apparently these clock works were exported around the world and inserted in all manner of cases - ceramic, wood, glass etc. Jema clocks from Holland had them, various Australian potteries also used them in their clocks. So not much help with the origins of the cases, unfortunately.

cheers
auliya