Gustav Becker, a mahogany mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a gong and chiming the quarters on a further four gongs, the backplate stamped for the maker Gustav Becker along with the serial number 2405077, giving a date of manufacture of circa 1927, the silvered arched dial having a raised silvered chapter ring with black Roman hour numerals and blued steel hands with two further subsidiary dials to the arch for regulation and chime/silent, the break-arch mahogany case having fluted columns to the corners and a stepped base with brass bracket feet, height 40cms.* Biography Gustav Becker, born 1819, was a prolific maker of 'Vienna' style wall regulators and mantel clocks. He had workshops at Silesia, Germany which continued well after his death in 1885. He was awarded the Medaille d'Or at the Schlesien Industrial Exhibition of 1852 for his work on regulator movements.