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Auction History Result 2k063 LIER 25x39 Belgian travel poster 1930s best Alphonse Mora art of world clocks & city skyline! Date Sold 12/13/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Unfolded Belgian Travel Poster (measures 24 1/2" x 39 1/4" [62 x 100 cm]) (Learn More) Lier, the 1930s (perhaps 1932) Belgian travel poster (in the German-language) encouraging people to visit the town of Lier. Note that this poster features Alphonse Mora art of Lier's skyline and an incredibly complex clock from the Zimmer tower. The Zimmer tower (also known as the Cornelius tower) was originally a keep of Lier's fourteenth century city fortifications. In 1930, astronomer and clockmaker Louis Zimmer built the Jubilee (or Centenary) Clock, which is displayed on the front of the tower, and consists of 12 clocks encircling a central one with 57 dials (though this poster says 62). These clocks showed time on all continents, phases of the moons, times of tides and many other periodic phenomena (including the world's slowest clock hand which takes 25,800 years for one round and indicates the precise movement of the Earth's axis). Albert Einstein congratulated Zimmer on his creation! Note that we have seen people describe this poster as being from the 1910s or the 1930s, and we are splitting the difference and calling it the 1920s, but we really don't know (and would appreciate help from someone who has a definitive answer as to when it is from). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Alphonse Mora Important Added Info: Note that this poster has an added piece that was attached to the bottom of the poster, giving it a bottom gold border. There is also an added thin strip of paper glued to the area where the top piece joins the bottom, and it has "LITH. DELCO. ANVERS" printed in the right of that thin strip. This was apparently done intentionally by the the creator of the poster, and other examples have the same design. Condition: good to very good. There is surface paper loss in the top right corner of the image background (to the right of the artist's signature). The poster has small tears in the left border that have small pieces of clear tape on the back. There are creases in the added bottom area (see above). Learn More about condition grades 
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