AN IMPROVISED RADIO SILENCE DUTCH BULK-HEAD CLOCK, CIRCA 1940

the 5in. painted brass dial with pencil shading and red blocking at '9' and '3', signed N.V. Observator Rotterdam above winding arbour, black spade hands and slow/fast arbour, contained within a chrome plated bulk-head case, scratch engraved to reverse 854 -- 7in. (18cm.) diam; contained within associated wooden case: together with a letter of provenance dated 1978 stating that this clock was liberated from a naval officer's house in Germany in 1945 where they discovered the clocks from all the vessels sunk by his e-boat, and took this example as a souvenir

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