A Victorian Black Forest trumpeter wall clock, the eight-day...

Hammer

£500

A Victorian Black Forest trumpeter wall clock, the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a gong with a trumpeter appearing and sounding on the hour, the dial with bone Roman numerals, the oak case with applied carved mouldings, height 48cm. (as found) In 1857 Johann Baptist Kirner, the court painter to the Grand Duke of Baden, suggested making a clock incorporating a trumpeter, possibly inspired by the popular poem, 'Trompeter von Säckingen' by Victor von Scheffel, published in 1854. The first maker to produce a trumpeter clock using a cuckoo clock movement was Bäuerle and in an 1858 exhibition he won a written commendation for the best trumpeter-style clock.