METAL CLOCK CASE REPAIR.
Junghans swinger mystery clocks are regularly found with the figurine’s arm damaged or broken . These figurines are “lost wax”castings and so are hollow and quite fragile at certain places of the figurine. Typically the breakage occurs on the arm of the human figurines and on the support component of the animal figurines, ie. the elephant’s trunk. The figurines are cast in spelter, an alloy of zinc and lead.
The figurine to be repaired here is the one of the largest of the Junghans models, the so called “Bat & Ball Boy”. The Junghans catalogue calls it “Bat Boy”and “Gros Elegant”.
