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Rare Late 19th-Century Mystery Clock

Inv. #: f309

Size: Height - 24.75 in.

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Rare late-19th century marble and patinated and gilt-metal mystery clock. The child is mounted to a complicated internal mechanism that rocks it back and forth and causes it to impulse the pendulum via a string.

Ref: For a near identical example see: 'Mystery, Novelty and Fantasy Clocks' by Roberts, pg. 251.