Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — AN OLD DUTCH CLOCK. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD DUTCH CLOCK.

Rare Specimen, 150 Years Old, from the Cape of Good Hope. An interesting souvenir of the Dutch ascendency at the Cape is to come under the hammer at a sale at Chalfont Park, near Uxbridge. This is a rare and valuable "upright Dutch clock, which was formerly the property of a Dutch governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The clock is at least 150 years old, and stands nine feet high. It has a massive base and finely engraved solid silver face, part of the works, the pendulum, hinges, and the filigree enrichments being also of silver or silver gilt. The clock indicates the days of the week, the months,and the phases of the moon, and has an automatic silver ship moving across a marine view below the face. It is inscribed: “Johann Michael Junck, Cabo de Goed Hoop,” which may be the name of the maker and not of the original owner. Dutch clocks of similar age and ornamentation have long since become great rarities.—London Chronicle.