Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask and all the rarer in

and all the rarer in great working shape with key

This guy is not tiny-- 5 1/2" tall and 6 3/4" long -- and is satisfyingly substantial

which sold on Ebay for $99

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

The papier mache head is hand-painted

Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask and all the rarer inI 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