Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask which sold on Ebay for

which sold on Ebay for $99

This guy is not tiny-- 5 1/2" tall and 6 3/4" long -- and is satisfyingly substantial

I have found these work better on some kinds of paper than others

The clips are easily removed should one wish to take it apart (which I did for the ease of documenting) and also easy to to reassemble

Primitive Old Painted Wooden Clock Face with Moveable Arms paper mask which sold on Ebay forI assume this clock face would have been made for teaching time, but it seems curious that each hour would be divided into five rather than six segments, marking 12 minutes at a time rather than 10! Whoever made it did take care to make those delineations, though, carving them into the wood as well, it appears, as marking them with graphite. I was just immediately attracted to the look of it, with the red painted numbers popping against the much aged