Oddities

Hands

Brass-tipped blue steel
hands on this late 18th-C
Capucine, probably made
in Liège, Belgium.


Two tapered pins to fit this hour hand
on its cannon. A feature I commonly see
on Belgian longcase clocks and nowhere
else.

Belgian 8-day time only longcase clock.



Pentagonal hour and minute hands cannon pinions,
locked with corresponding pentagonal-cut washers.

Belgian 30-hour longcase clock by
Roscamps à Braine-le-Comte.


 

 

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