Help with large cookoo clock

Hi everyone, I need help identifying this cookoo clock with a moose (and many other animals). It's quite large, this photo is taken going up the staircase of a family member's house, so it will require some work to take down. My mom says it was purchased before she was born

 

nice...but not a moose !!

that said.....yup...u gotta take it down....and we need to see a clear shot of the working mechanism , for any tell tale marks....

oh...and where is it now.....and where was it bought...??????

 

First off: not a moose, they have palmated antlers.

What year was your mother born?

Here is one similar that sold for 35 euro. Said to be from the second half of the 20th century.

https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/33460213-cuckoo-clock-wood-second-half-20th-century

 

Hi cmc,

I've brightened up your photo to show the details:

 

it's a hunters clock fer sure....but...does it really coo koo ????

I'm not seeing a door !

 

Don’t think it’s a moose, antlers are different. This could be what is called a Black Forest carving. Switzerland was the home of the cuckoo clock!

 

Oops, thanks!
She was born in 1957. Sorry that I only have this one image now, but height wise it's probably 5+ feet tall and I think quite bulky. Apologies if everything about my description is wrong. She said it was a cookoo, but could be wrong. I don't know anything about this stuff

 

wow....there are a lot of these on the web.......likely German in origin..

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock

 

We had a cuckoo clock for many years... ex-hubby had bought it in the Black Forest area of Germany on a trip in the 1990s. I enjoyed it but many don't. Yours definitely looks like it has significant age and is more intricately carved than many produced nowadays. Unfortunately, it appears the tips of the antler on the right side are broken off. Yours looks like it has two cuckoo doors?
Even on a good day, cuckoo clocks are hard to sell in my area of the Midwestern USA.

 

blackforestclocks.org....... may be of help....or full of viruses.....I DON'T KNOW fer sure...!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think I see double doors, so a bit more value than the single cuckoo. They are usually a little man and the bird.

 

That one is older and higher end, lovely carving. These, as with Victorian furniture, come in a wide variety of age, style, level of craftsmanship and clock-work quality. Hard to price through the myriads. One quick way to date it is to see if the hands and numerals are plastic.

 

HAHAHA!!! Just sniped by @Darkwing Manor on finding the two small doors, but not sure if they're decorative or functional!!

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shows only one thing - also Orson Welles didn't know anything about Europe.

 

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LOL, I think I got there first!

 

I've been cuckolded!

 

The antlered animal, by the way, is a Red Deer - what we would call an elk in North America. But in Europe an elk is a moose.