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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 81915, member: 25&quot;]The label is a price code, xx pounds/xx shillings/ no pence.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the other numbers are stock numbers. You&#039;d only fine this sort of price code in antiques and junk&nbsp; shops where the seller would expect to haggle and needed their cost as a reminder.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion the label dates from the 1950s. I&#039;d expect even an informal date to be &#039;84 (similar to that often seen on late 19th C paintings). The price would be about right in the 50s - 60s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The modification to the movement may date from the same time. The little lamp bulb holders could date from then.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the time black marble clocks were so unsalable people made garden walls from empty cases. A huge number of 19th C French movements found their way into Spanish period style brass cases. Re-housing the movement in a wooden case would be a typical way of &#039;re-purposing&#039; the movement at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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