In English for many years Karl Kochmann from California had a virtual monopoly on the subject: Beginning in 1978 with ‘The Black Forest Cuckoo Clock’ he produced a series of selfpublished booklets (expanded and reprinted in 1979and 1983, renamed ‘Black Forest Clockmaker and the Cuckoo Clock’ in 1987, reprinted 1990, enlarged 1994 and reprinted again in 1996) characterized by his idiosyncratic style of data gathering. Given the hundred of thousands cuckoo clocks that have been made over the last 250 years, and how many serious horological collectors have one hidden in an obscure corner of their collection (even if they will not readily admit it), it is amazing how little serious horological literature has been published over the years about this endearing and popular category of timekeepers.
Available from Historische Uhrenbűcher Berlin (Germany) for €65, plus shipping. Hardcover, 30 cm x 21 cm, 381 pages, over 600 color illustrations Bibliography, Makersindex of over 120 names, Subjectindex. Published 2011, Regenbsburg (Germany) by the author. Out of print since 2011, available only in the antiquarian book trade.īeha-Uhren, Kuckucksuhren von Johann Baptist Beha und seinen wichtigsten Konkurrenten, by Wilhelm Schneider.
Hardcover, 30 cm x21 cm, 241 pages, 236 color illustrations Bibliography, Index. It is reprinted here with their permissionįrühe Kuckucksuhren – Entwicklungsgeschichte der Schwarzwälder Kuckucksuhr von 17, by Wilhelm Schneider. The following review was published in the June 2012 issue of the British journal "Antiquarian Horology", Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society. The Early History of German Cuckoo Clocks
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