Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask The clips are easily removed

The clips are easily removed should one wish to take it apart (which I did for the ease of documenting) and also easy to to reassemble

this would look great in all sorts of contexts

and all the rarer in great working shape with key

The papier mache head is hand-painted

and listed at $150 on Bay

Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask The clips are easily removedI assume this clock face would have been made for teaching time, but it seems curious that each hour would be divided into five rather than six segments, marking 12 minutes at a time rather than 10! Whoever made it did take care to make those delineations, though, carving them into the wood as well, it appears, as marking them with graphite. I was just immediately attracted to the look of it, with the red painted numbers popping against the much aged