CLOCKS of the Faience manufacture of Wasmuël
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The faience manufacture of wasmuël (A.M.C “Auguste MOUZIN and COMPANIES”) especially produced large decorative parts and objects of imagination of beautiful quality. We suppose that it will have diversified in the manufacture of mantelpiece ornaments about 1920 to develop a mass production and to generate more stable incomes.
 It produced a hundred different models of clock. All carry a number of model engraved in hollow, but sometimes, when the mould is worn, the figures are illegible. The hanging ones carry the same number of mould as the clock, except for the “scenes”.

Series 150:
 In fact important clocks, with broad movement (Ø 8 cm, except the 172 and the 186 have a small movement). This series probably began about 1920.

Series 250:
 They are more modest clocks, with small movement (Ø 5 cm). This series probably began at the beginning of the Twenties, shortly after the commencement of the series “150”.

Series 300:
 They are simpler clocks, with small movement, of inspiration art-déco, probably create in the Thirties and perhaps forty.

Series 308 to the 325 “Balconies”:
 They are clocks low, punts and round at the ends, resembling flowers stand a little; some are decorated of an animal in round bump (numbers 323 to 325). They probably were create about 1935; it have sometimes a stamp “Opaqueof Wasmuël”.

Series 306 and 328 to the 338 “Scenes”:
 They are clocks comprising one or more animals in round bump on a rectangular base art-déco; they are in general decorated with the Aerographer, often on glaze, of a pastoral scene illustrating the animal which they carry. Their hanging is always vases 306. They never carry seal. These models of clock are probably latest (end of the Thirties or perhaps the Forties); much of them is coarse copies of clocks produced before 1939 by Czech faience manufacture BIHL. Let us notice that similar models were also produced about this period by other faience manufactures of Borinage: Antoine Dubois, Hubert Becquet and Thulin.

The models F2 and 350:
 We indexed the models F2 and 350 with stamp AMC.

The models 50, 56 et 95 :
We also indexed models 50, 56 and 95, without stamp but presenting strong similarities with clocks AMC.