Editing Cuckoo clock (section)

===In England===
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| footer            = Bracket cuckoo clock by Higgs & Diego Evans, [[London]], c. 1785. Left subsidiary dial with three selections: "CUCU Y TOCAR", "CUCU" and "TOCAR" (Spanish for strike), the right one with "MUSICA" and "SILENCIO". Lunette painted with a lakeside red brick English farmhouse with [[Thatching|thatched]] roof. At the cuckoo's door is seen a farmer. In the image on the right, the simple wooden cuckoo above the movement, which has no moving beak and wings.
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Apart from the Black Forest, the cuckoo clock was also made in [[England]] in the 18th century. It seems that very few of these London timepieces were produced, an indication that in those days, before the worldwide popularization of the cuckoo clock from the second half of the 19th century, there was not a high demand for them.

There is at least one example, intended for the Spanish market.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.garysullivanantiques.com/Inventory/ProdID/30/antique_musical_shelf_clock|title=Diego Evans Shelf Clock (London, England)|publisher=garysullivanantiques.com|language=en|access-date=2022-07-15}}</ref> It is a circa 1785 [[George III]] [[bracket clock]], eight-day time, three-[[Fusee (horology)|fusee]], verge escapement, which announces the quarters on eight bells and gives the hours on a deep toned cuckoo,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/c-1785-david-evans-peter-higgs-london-quarter-chi-200-c-ojvvmo4v3w|title=Lot 200: C. 1785, Diego Evans & Peter Higgs, London|publisher=Invaluable.com|language=en|access-date=2022-07-15}}</ref> pull quarter repeat on command. The two pipes and bellows for the bird's sound are located at the base of the case,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2527M/lots/481|title=Mahogany Quarter-Chiming Spanish Market Bracket Clock with Automaton by David Evans|publisher=Skinner|language=en|access-date=2022-07-15}}</ref> below the movement. Those pipes are placed horizontally, the same position seen in early Black Forest cuckoos. Both the dial and the elaborately engraved back plate, read: "Higgs y / Diego Evans / Londres".

Robert Higgs and his son Peter were in partnership together as Robert and Peter Higgs, and later, between 1780 and 1785 with James Evans,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Huete |first=Amelia Aranda |url=https://coleccion.bde.es/wca/es/secciones/coleccion/artistas/james-evans-1570.html|title=Diego Evans|publisher=Colección Banco de España|language=es|access-date=2022-07-15}}</ref> who sometimes styled himself in Spanish as Diego Evans. They traded musical and other complex clocks, many for the Spanish market.

In the mid-20th century, Camerer, Cuss & Co., London, a retailer of Black Forest clocks, etc., produced a few different models in the shape of a half-timbered [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor]] style house. The bird was cast [[aluminum]] with movable beak and fixed wings and the weights were cylindrical, rather than pine-cone shaped.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/english-made-cuckoo-clock.164956/|title=English-made cuckoo clock|publisher=NAWCC.org|language=en|access-date=2022-07-27}}</ref> They were featured in a [[Pathé News]] [[newsreel]] in 1950.<ref>{{Cite web |url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h0vzYJ7a2I|title=Cuckoo clocks|date=13 April 2014 |publisher=British Pathé|language=en|access-date=2022-07-27}}</ref>

According to author Terence Camerer Cuss, the company hoped to produce them in large quantities, but due to the high manufacturing cost, only fifty were made between 1949 and 1951.<ref>{{Cite web |url=
https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/camerer-cuss-cuckoo-clock.21528/|title=Camerer & Cuss cuckoo clock|publisher=NAWCC.org|language=en|access-date=2022-07-27}}</ref> One of them, marked "01", was presented by the maker to the then [[Prince Charles]] in 1949 and is part of the [[Royal Collection]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/3128/cuckoo-clock|title=Cuckoo Clock|publisher=Royal Collection Trust|language=en|access-date=2022-07-27}}</ref>