Vitascope

Bonhams 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:

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 :}