My husband and I received this cuckoo clock from his aunt recently. She explained to us that it belonged to her mother, who supposedly got it from her mother, who came to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia. I'm looking for a year or a range of years our clock may have been made? I have been trying to find information online but have only found a handful of clocks that look like ours and none of them have a date.
I can tell you there is a Hubert Herr makers marks on the mechanism. It reads "Hubert Herr Triberg Germany Unadjusted No Jewels". It's a non-musical, 1 day movement. It is stamped with "Made in Germany" on both the front clock face and the back panel. The Roman numeral 4 on the clock is four lines, not an IV. The weights read "420 ET" (I'm not sure that matters). There is a "36" written in pencil on both the inside of the back panel and the bottom inside edge of the clock. I'm wondering if this was to keep the back of this clock from getting mixed up with the back from another? There's also an "1866" written in pencil in the upper right hand corner of the inside of the back panel. That seems quite old to me so I'm not assuming it's a date, but does anyone know what it could be? It is all fully functional; although, I am still working to get the pendulum position right. Currently, it adds five minutes every seven days or so.
I consider myself to be something like our family's curator. I collect heirlooms from both sides and keep pictures of them, their stories, and their details in a scrapbook that I'll pass on to my daughter. She's 2 now, and she loves the cuckoo clock! If I can get a date for the clock, it will help me to verify who originally owned the clock and how long it's been in our family. Any information you can provide to the date or other background would be most appreciated.
I can tell you there is a Hubert Herr makers marks on the mechanism. It reads "Hubert Herr Triberg Germany Unadjusted No Jewels". It's a non-musical, 1 day movement. It is stamped with "Made in Germany" on both the front clock face and the back panel. The Roman numeral 4 on the clock is four lines, not an IV. The weights read "420 ET" (I'm not sure that matters). There is a "36" written in pencil on both the inside of the back panel and the bottom inside edge of the clock. I'm wondering if this was to keep the back of this clock from getting mixed up with the back from another? There's also an "1866" written in pencil in the upper right hand corner of the inside of the back panel. That seems quite old to me so I'm not assuming it's a date, but does anyone know what it could be? It is all fully functional; although, I am still working to get the pendulum position right. Currently, it adds five minutes every seven days or so.
I consider myself to be something like our family's curator. I collect heirlooms from both sides and keep pictures of them, their stories, and their details in a scrapbook that I'll pass on to my daughter. She's 2 now, and she loves the cuckoo clock! If I can get a date for the clock, it will help me to verify who originally owned the clock and how long it's been in our family. Any information you can provide to the date or other background would be most appreciated.
