Help with large cookoo clock

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  1. cmc0605

    cmc0605 New Member

    Hi everyone, I need help identifying this cookoo clock with a moose (and many other animals). It's quite large, this photo is taken going up the staircase of a family member's house, so it will require some work to take down. My mom says it was purchased before she was born moose_clock (2).jpg
     
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    nice...but not a moose !!:happy:;)

    that said.....yup...u gotta take it down....and we need to see a clear shot of the working mechanism , for any tell tale marks....

    oh...and where is it now.....and where was it bought...??????
     
  3. wiscbirddog

    wiscbirddog Well-Known Member

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  4. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    Hi cmc,

    I've brightened up your photo to show the details:

    cuckoo.jpg
     
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  5. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    it's a hunters clock fer sure....but...does it really coo koo ????

    I'm not seeing a door !
     
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  6. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Don’t think it’s a moose, antlers are different. This could be what is called a Black Forest carving. Switzerland was the home of the cuckoo clock!
     
  7. cmc0605

    cmc0605 New Member

    Oops, thanks!
    She was born in 1957. Sorry that I only have this one image now, but height wise it's probably 5+ feet tall and I think quite bulky. Apologies if everything about my description is wrong. She said it was a cookoo, but could be wrong. I don't know anything about this stuff :)
     
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  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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    wow....there are a lot of these on the web.......likely German in origin..
     
  9. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

  10. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    We had a cuckoo clock for many years... ex-hubby had bought it in the Black Forest area of Germany on a trip in the 1990s. I enjoyed it but many don't. Yours definitely looks like it has significant age and is more intricately carved than many produced nowadays. Unfortunately, it appears the tips of the antler on the right side are broken off. Yours looks like it has two cuckoo doors?
    Even on a good day, cuckoo clocks are hard to sell in my area of the Midwestern USA.
     
  11. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    blackforestclocks.org....... may be of help....or full of viruses.....I DON'T KNOW fer sure...!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  12. Darkwing Manor

    Darkwing Manor Well-Known Member

    I think I see double doors, so a bit more value than the single cuckoo. They are usually a little man and the bird. cuckoo.jpg
     
  13. Darkwing Manor

    Darkwing Manor Well-Known Member

    That one is older and higher end, lovely carving. These, as with Victorian furniture, come in a wide variety of age, style, level of craftsmanship and clock-work quality. Hard to price through the myriads. One quick way to date it is to see if the hands and numerals are plastic.
     
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  14. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    HAHAHA!!! Just sniped by @Darkwing Manor on finding the two small doors, but not sure if they're decorative or functional!!

    cuckoo-edit-low_res-scale-3_00x-cropped-gigapixel.jpg
     
  15. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    shows only one thing - also Orson Welles didn't know anything about Europe.:grumpy:
     
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  16. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy


    LOL, I think I got there first! :shame:
     
  17. Darkwing Manor

    Darkwing Manor Well-Known Member

    I've been cuckolded!
     
  18. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    The antlered animal, by the way, is a Red Deer - what we would call an elk in North America. But in Europe an elk is a moose. :confused:
     
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