Lot: 3371
Date of sale: 26. Fri Jan 2024
Figural table clock with automa
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Figural table clock with automatic ignition device, France, circa 1900, marked Duverdrey & Bloquel St.-Nicolas-d’Aliermont, France, dial with depoy, black Arabic numerals on white ground, painted and bronzed white cast figure of a standing man in a tailcoat. The hat serves as a match holder. When the alarm mechanism is triggered, the arm with the match rises and ignites (mechanism hangs) Movement must be revised, Literature: Brandstifter: Vom Feuerstahl zum Solarzünder, eine kleine Kulturgeschichte des Feuerzeugs, ed.: Niederrheinisches Museum für Völkerkunde und Kulturgeschichte, Goch 2002, p. 73 f. H. 24 cm
Category: Clocks
