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This was a Christmas gift from my sister last year. I love the pattern, it reminds me of a Celtic design!
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Royal Air Force Neatishead, Near Horning, Norfolk, England, UK
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Following a gentle nudge from guliolopez yesterday, that he'd been "waiting patiently for a Cork photo for a while", I thought we might indulge him with another today. We don't want to get on the wrong side of anyone from the People's Republic! So, here's a gorgeous one of Mallow taken at about 4.55 on a very sunny day...
Thanks to Gerry Ward for filling in the blanks in our knowledge about the gorgeous Clock House:
"The Clock House was build around 1855, by Sir Denham Orlando Jephson. He was an amateur architect who is said to have designed this house after he had returned from an alpine holiday. The Clock was brought from the tower of the Old Mallow Castle. The bell was cast at Millerd Street, Cork. The bell tower became dangerous and was removed c1970, but was restored in 1995."
Date: Circa 1901??
NLI Ref.: EAS_0906
Neoclassical Italian ormolu-mounted white marble mantel clock with gilded lions. Seen at the Halim Time & Glass Museum at 1560 Oak Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
Clocks from the Renwez Forest Museum gift shop we visited in the Ardennes. Their animal is the Wild Boar... there is delicious beer with wild boar on the label and restaurants seem to have at least one taxidermied boar head on the wall...
My next attempt to make a few quid on eBay, have done quite well recently against expectations. These clocks were given to me by a friend at work a few years ago, lets see what happens when I put them up for sale.
Painted functioning wooden clocks -- in progress.
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The Prague Astronomical Clock or Prague Orloj (Czech: Pražský orloj [pra?ski? ?rl?i]) is a medieval astronomical clock located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town City Hall in the Old Town Square and is a popular tourist attraction.
The Orloj is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; "The Walk of the Apostles", a clockwork hourly show of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.
The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadan and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University.
Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade decorated with gothic sculptures.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský, clock-master of Orloj, who also wrote a report on the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of the clock.
The Orloj stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times. In the 17th century moving statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1865-1866.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans directed incendiary fire from several armored vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. The machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtech Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948, but only after significant effort [1].
There exists a good deal of misinformation relating to the construction of the Orloj . For a long time it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Ruže (also called Hanuš) and his assistant Jakub Cech. Another fictitious story involves the clockmaker Hanuš being blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors.
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