Dog be praised
November 2020. The posting on Craigslist was interesting. I don't usually look much beyond the Monterey Bay area but I ventured a look up to the "other" bay area just north. Low and behold I saw this. I reached out to the seller, Judith, who said the clock was her fathers and had been working fine. She didn't have a key and couldn't test it. Hmm... Visually the clock appeared a slightly odd pairing of marble base and metal statue but not atypical of some of the Deco clock styles that were popular in the very late 19th and early 20th centuries. I did some research from the few photos provided in the Craigslist post. Here's one. Such a lovely setting. Ahem. The inscription of TH. Cartier on the foot of the statue was intriguing. The sculptor was not that hard to track down. THomas François Cartier was born in 1879 in Marseille and died in 1943. Not wildly successful but still prodigious in output and well-regarded, Cartier had become quite well known for his ...