Sheri Geisler of Double Oak incorporated her wooden shoe collection into the Christmas decorations this year. A handmade wooden cuckoo clock was handpainted by Geisler's sister. A pair of Pennsylvania ...

If you’ve ever yearned to take a noisy cuckoo clock and hurl it against the wall to silence it forever, then you just might appreciate Nikolai Erngren’s work. His handmade, one-of-a-kind cuckoo clocks ...

Which cuckoo clocks are best? Cuckoo clocks are some of the most intricate and beautifully designed clocks there are. Built with hours of care and patience, they are typically hand-carved over months ...

Sometimes identifying and dating an antique seems easy, but it fools you. An unusual wall clock was offered at a recent auction. It was labeled “Friesland wall clock with automata, 1800.” Friesland is ...

It is one of the most popular souvenirs from Germany: the cuckoo clock. In the Black Forest you can find the largest specimen in the world — as big as a two-story house. This is part five in our ...

CHICAGO — Christmas is less than two weeks away – and there’s a last-minute gift idea at the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza. Frank Weschler said he has visited the traditional German holiday market ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the neighbouring towns of Schonach and Triberg in the Black Forest region of Germany are two timbered gabled ...