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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 97239, member: 25"]No real need, Susan, there is a standard round French movement and a coiled gong with a hammer on the backplate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to identify the figures is like trying to locate the real Metropolis from the background buildings in a Superman comic. Every element of the design was pulled from a mixing pot called 'classical' and you can't read into it anything apart from that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The figures are cast bronze, not pressed brass, that would be a bit too cheapo for a clock that was relatively expensive for it's time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 97239, member: 25"]No real need, Susan, there is a standard round French movement and a coiled gong with a hammer on the backplate. Trying to identify the figures is like trying to locate the real Metropolis from the background buildings in a Superman comic. Every element of the design was pulled from a mixing pot called 'classical' and you can't read into it anything apart from that. The figures are cast bronze, not pressed brass, that would be a bit too cheapo for a clock that was relatively expensive for it's time.[/QUOTE]
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