Set Reminder2018-05-18 03:00:002018-05-18 03:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The David Baldwin Magic Collection II https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-david-baldwin-magic-collection-ii-22012 The second offering from David Baldwin's collection features automatons, magic apparatus (both vintage and modern), ephemera, Houdiniana, stone lithographs, broadsides, and mystery clocks.
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Robert-Houdin Glass Column Mystery Clock. Paris, mid-nineteenth century. Single arrow-shaped hand, glass dial indicating the time with Roman numerals, contained within a gilt-brass circular frame, upon a mount supported by a glass column terminating in four griffins, velvet-covered platform, gilt wooden and ebonized base. Height 19 ??. Dial 5 ?? diam. Base 7 x 4 ??. Interior glass tube captured by brass wheel, set screws in casting at tube base, movement consistent with original with exceptional balance platform; base and gilt finish with some losses, castings and overall quality and finish consistent with an original example. Accompanied by a glass display dome.