A clock in an anthracite holder. The holder (representing a mine and a mine worker) is one solid carved coal piece. A round mechanical clock in the upper part is enclosed in a metal casing and has an hour and a minute hands. The clock face with Arabic numerals is blue and green. Below the clock there is a figure of a mine worker using a pickaxe in the shaft. The holder is removable; it is fixed to the base with wooden pins. The inscription in the middle of the base reads: “Kopalnia – Śląsk” (Mine shaft “Silesia”). To the left and to the right of the inscription there are symmetrical crossed hammers.
Table clock
See also
Letter from the Upper Manhattan women’s group
USA ,
07.12.1944
Letter from the Upper Manhattan women’s group
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Cape of demonstrators for peace and disarmament
Australia ,
September 1963
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Vase with a lid
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