Caledonian Railway porcelain advertising clock, advertising Leith Golf Course with transfer prints of a golfing lady on the top and the following THE GOLFING GIRL AND ALL OF HER FRIENDS PLAY GOOD GOLF ON ALL THE GOLF COURSES OF THE DELIGHTFUL DISTRICTS SERVED BY THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY, DONALD A MATHESON GENERAL MANAGER. The movement has been sympathetically replaced with a quartz one, retaining all the original dial, and the broken mechanical one is included. A rare clock, probably a one-off, used in the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh.
Category:
Clocks
Auction: July 2017, Lot: 254
Not sold, reserve: £400