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skull and crossbones clock: ooh, that’s scary!

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Skull Automaton Clock

This amazing clock may have been constructed almost 400 years ago, but it’s just as bone-chilling as it was back then. To tell the time, just crack open his skull cap, and the clock is where his brains should be.

The skull and crossbones automaton clock has a mechanical moving jaw, and snakes that dart out of its eyeballs…

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October 28th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob