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Objekt 15

Station clock

Description

Tall, four-sided station clocks on a towering candelabra ensured at large train stations (and in urban squares) that travelers and passersby could easily see the time from any direction.

Object description

Company Märklin, Göppingen (Württemberg), around 1905/10

Iron, painted; clock, glass

Gift of Dr. Urs and Barbara Burckhardt-Vischer, Basel

Inv. 2008.357.

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