Lot 40
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Electric Self-Winding Clock. An English oak electrically rewound wall clock, circa 1905
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Electric Self-Winding Clock. An English oak electrically rewound wall clock, circa 1905

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Electric Self-Winding Clock. An English oak electrically rewound wall clock, circa 1905
The silvered dial signed ELECTRIC SELF-WINDING CLOCK. PATENT MOELLER. BRITISH PATENT NO.10960, wood rod pendulum with brass bob and enamel beat scale -- 34¾ in. (88.5 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Alan and Rita Shenton, Collectable Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1994, p.390.
The original patents were taken out by Max Hoeft in 1899, for an essentially mechanical clock with its spring being rewound by an electromagnet. Further patents (10960 and 10961) were taken out in 1901 by Max Moeller of Altona, Germany.

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