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(This model also has some NEW pics on our website - check it out! ) (We've blogged about this new option before. We are offering several of our cuckoo clocks with the option of authentic bone hands and wooden weight shells !) (Also, more pictures available here! ) (...and more NEW pictures for this one too.)

Over the past weekend I acquired a collection of 24 rare and antique Black Forest Clocks. The clocks have been in storage for over a decade. I was thrilled to be able to locate so many choice pieces and add them to our collection in a single transaction. This collection includes many high-quality 8-day shelf cuckoos, several by Johann Baptist Beha. A 5" C.1880 Hunter cuckoo with huge 8" 5 tune music box. Early cast brass pinned plate movement. A Black Forest Trumpeter A unique Black Forest Muscial piece A GHS Apostle Clock A GHS Monk Automaton Many of these clocks are documented in the book Black Forest Clocks by Rick Ortenburger. (see sidebar for a link) Please stay tuned for detailed posts of these Antique Black Forest Pieces! And check our private museum. Best, Justin J. Miller www.blackforestclocks.org

Probably not, but he would have probably been pretty good at clock restoration because oftentimes, restoring an antique clock in a historically correct manner not only requires a mandatory high level of technical skills and knowledge but also the intellectual curiosity, deductive reasoning and persistent "detective" work to understand, and faithfully recreate, the original clockmaker's design given the typical situation of incomplete information and more than a few missing parts. Recently, I had the opportunity to acquire a rare, and very early ( ca. 1876), Johann Baptist Beha Number 932 cuckoo and monk clock. This clock is rather unusual for a Beha clock in that it not only has time, strike and cuckoo complications but also an animation complication in which a monk comes out of the lower door three times a day to ring the Angelus (the monk's arm goes up and down while clock's two gongs are struck to simulate the ringing of a bell in the church's steeple). ...