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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 280202, member: 25"]Looks like a routine late 19th C 30 hour strike and alarm sharp gothic style clock, possibly American, where the design came from but as it is in Europe, quite possibly from one of the German makers such as HAC (Hamburg American Clock) who copied US styles and movement designs, because they were far cheaper to make than traditional European designs. You cannot read anything into odd screws, they get lost and replaced when tinkering, and I see no reason why anyone would swap one relatively crude movement for another.</p><p>I see no reason why the apparent mercury pendulum would be mercury, they are usually, on cheap clocks, glass cylinders silvered on the inside, and are quite often just silvery coloured metal cylinders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 280202, member: 25"]Looks like a routine late 19th C 30 hour strike and alarm sharp gothic style clock, possibly American, where the design came from but as it is in Europe, quite possibly from one of the German makers such as HAC (Hamburg American Clock) who copied US styles and movement designs, because they were far cheaper to make than traditional European designs. You cannot read anything into odd screws, they get lost and replaced when tinkering, and I see no reason why anyone would swap one relatively crude movement for another. I see no reason why the apparent mercury pendulum would be mercury, they are usually, on cheap clocks, glass cylinders silvered on the inside, and are quite often just silvery coloured metal cylinders.[/QUOTE]
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