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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Image(s) TitleMusical Portico Clock with Cylinder Movement Creatorunknown PlaceVienna (Austria) Year ca. 1830 Object number0945 Object categorymechanical instruments with playing comb, timepieces with musical movements Object nametimepiece with playing comb, timepiece with playing comb, table clock DescriptionThis Viennese column clock has alabaster columns and an elegant arch decorated with pieces of mother of pearl. The clock activates the musical playing work every whole hour by means of a wire running from the movement to the playing work. Accompanying textsThe clock's black polished wooden base houses an early 4-melody cylinder movement with a segment comb (two teeth per segment). The clock's repertoire includes Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen". According to the silver plate on the front, this clock was given as a gift by members of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain to the group's first secretary in May 1970, "in recognition of his outstanding service to the society."

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TitleMusical Portico Clock with Cylinder Movement

Creatorunknown

PlaceVienna (Austria)

Year ca. 1830

Object number0945

Object categorymechanical instruments with playing comb, timepieces with musical movements

Object nametimepiece with playing comb, timepiece with playing comb, table clock

DescriptionThis Viennese column clock has alabaster columns and an elegant arch decorated with pieces of mother of pearl. The clock activates the musical playing work every whole hour by means of a wire running from the movement to the playing work.

Accompanying textsThe clock's black polished wooden base houses an early 4-melody cylinder movement with a segment comb (two teeth per segment). The clock's repertoire includes Mozart's "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen".

According to the silver plate on the front, this clock was given as a gift by members of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain to the group's first secretary in May 1970, "in recognition of his outstanding service to the society."

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