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anteros_lmcBonhams annual autumn Marine Sale takes place in London tomorrow and as usual there are lots of hugely desirable and immensely costly pieces in the catalogue including exquisite ship models, paintings by Tuke and Serres and even a painting of the Droits de L'Homme engagement I have never seen before. However the piece I fell in love with is...a novelty clock. Yep that's right. And here it is, isn't it cute?! 
There's very little information in the catalogue which describes this piece as:
There's no date but I'm guessing this was made in the 1940s. I love it! It would look splendid on my kitchen window sill. Sadly it's selling for between £300 - 500 so I guess I'll just have to admire it from afar :}
There's very little information in the catalogue which describes this piece as:
A Vitascope electronic novelty clock, by Vitascope Industries Ltd. White Bakelite case, with brass hands and numeral markers and a small window revealing a three masted ship on a moulded sea, which moves with the mechanism.
There's no date but I'm guessing this was made in the 1940s. I love it! It would look splendid on my kitchen window sill. Sadly it's selling for between £300 - 500 so I guess I'll just have to admire it from afar :}
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Date: 2012-09-26 05:15 am (UTC)The sextants were so pretty. I really need one.
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Date: 2012-09-27 08:51 pm (UTC)I love the idea of plot donkeys. I think I have plot tortoises. They are immensely slow but very long lived!
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Date: 2012-09-27 09:01 pm (UTC)I did a quick google and came across one that had been sold on ebay for just over £100, it had one hand missing though, and £100 is still a lot of money to pay for a broken clock!
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Date: 2012-09-28 05:59 am (UTC)*claps hands*
How very very cute!
Also, what things you find!
*admires your great finding skillz*
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Date: 2012-09-28 10:31 pm (UTC)Also, what things you find!
Nah, they finds me! :)
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Date: 2012-09-27 09:22 pm (UTC)But better by far than the treatment they might have had!
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Date: 2012-09-27 09:53 pm (UTC)Actually this conversation reminds me of a picture I must post for you...
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