Steam Power Mantle Clock, French
£ P.O.A.
In gilt bronze and marble
With Atlantean figure and a
steam train emerging from a tunnel.
French made, possibly to commemorate
construction of a major railway c1840.
~ 18″ long x 18″ high ~
An unusal ‘object d’art et vapeur’.
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