Need help identifying antique bronze clock

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by Michel7564, Aug 30, 2016.

  1. Michel7564

    Michel7564 New Member

    Hello everybody

    I found this clock can anybody over here tell me anything about its age and perhaps the value from it?
    I think its old and made of bronze or something like that.

    Thanks in advance.

    Regards Michel
     

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  2. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

  3. Michel7564

    Michel7564 New Member

    Thank you for enlarging the pictures any thoughts about the clock?
     
  4. afantiques

    afantiques Well-Known Member

    The movement does not belong to the case. Someone has taken a reasonably close diameter movement and fitted it into that case but the makers would never have had a clock model with the bell, etc. hanging out the back door.

    It is French, late 19th C. and probably gilt spelter, not bronze. A scratch under a foot would show silver colour. The figures on top are usually referred to as Marley horses after the original sculptor.

    I don't know where you are, so a value is not really more than a wild guess, but with it being spelter (assuming it is), being a marriage, and with a damaged dial, the value would be fairly modest.
     
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  5. Michel7564

    Michel7564 New Member

    I will add some extra pictures from the bottom is this what you mean?
    I know its been in a family for nearly 3 generations late 19th century is a good guess,thanks .
    By the way i'm from Holland.
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  6. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Definitely spelter , and it looks like someone "freshened" it up with gold paint at one point .
     
  7. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    What exactly IS spelter? Can someone explain this to me?
     
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