Is it made out of bakelite, vesta?
I have no idea what it is made of, according to my grandmother this was a wedding gift to her mother in the mid 1800's, I received it in the mid 1970's when she sold out and went into a place that was assisted living.. So she gave away all the trappings of life including 2 other mantel clocks, made of wood, both with double key wind like mine, pocket watches, seems that keeping time was very important to the late generations.
Now I have Mother on the hunt for a watch my Dad had along time ago. It was one of those that wound itself up just by the movement of the wearers wrist.
Back to the clock in question , double key wind, lions heads on both sides both lions holding a ring in their mouth. Front has a either a Greek or Roman theme, decorative columns holding up the flat top, at one time the clock had a bronze statue of horse and rider placed there. My aunt took that.
I am fascinated however with my flee market find, double key wind and the innards have some kind of a gizmo's with a definitely European Eagle looks like a symbol for some country over there. The clock face has no makers name on it so I believe the clock lost the original face and was repaired sometime in the past.
I did find out something interesting at work one day. Part of my job was to time the lines with a stop watch. The company gave out the battery type but one worker had a stem wound watch. I went a looking and could not find any under $100, 20 years ago.
A beautiful piece of work with a face cover, like a pocket watch. Along with my hunt I also found out that watch fobs are valuable.
Styles of the late 1800's up to the 1940's had those of wealth take dimes into a jeweler, the back of the dimes was ground off and each dime was engraved with the initials of a family member. The front intact with the date and the government stamp. These the Jeweler attached together to a chain all on one place to create a watch fob. Mom gave me one that belonged to her grandfather and I passed it on to my son.
I think I will head for E Bay to see what they have for their clocks, pocket watches etc.