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ohanne Jimson Weisenheimer and Mahoney Alouiscious Tuckus sold their first wooden clock in 1862, to a reputable cobbler and cordwainer by the name of Howard Wimble. Wimble kept the stately timepiece on proud display at the front desk of his shoe shop, to the remark of many of his customers. From this, word and interest steadily spread, and by and by Weisenheimer and Tuckus accrued a dossier of custom clock commissions, some say, to rival the great lists of Chris Kringle himself. By the following year, the two purchased a storefront and workshop in downtown Waterville, Maine, opening up for business under the banner of The J. J. Weisenheimer & Tuckus Company, later changed to Weisenheimer-Tuckus Clockworks. The two remained in steady business at this location for thirty-three years. In 1896, Johanne passed away due to complications of a splinter, and Mahoney retired, keeping the shop to pursue his hobbies of clockwork automata and toymaking.



Following Mahoney's passing four years later, the Tuckus company name and workshop were inherited by Alouiscious's eldest son, Grover, who was in the business of dry goods. He would convert the workshop for goods storage, and maintain the storefront as a modest market and apothecary specializing in the sale of buckwheat, barley, asprin, and porridge grains. Several Weisenheimer-Tuckus clocks remained on display there. When Grover fatally contracted typhus in 1908, the shop closed its doors, not to reopen until 1914 when the legal bramble of the Tuckus trust had resolved it to the inheritance of his daughter, Fannie Ann Tuckus-Winslow, and her husband, Hugh. An aspiring student of law, Winslow retook the mantle of his father-in-law's store, now open to the public just two to three days of the week, in order to pay his way through school. When he was granted admission to practice in 1919, the shop would once again be closed, and the property and remaining clocks sold at auction, as the Winslow family relocated to New York City.



For several more generations, the Weisenheimer-Tuckus company was passed down, but remained in dormancy until 1987, when it came into the hands of Alouiscious Popplecard, great-great-great-great-great living grandson of Mahoney Alouiscious Tuckus. Popplecard, an enterprising young student of Hollywood special effects, on investigating the contents of the Tuckus inheritance, found an instant affinity and passion for the clockworks and, in particular, post-career works of his forebear--a passion which would lead him to delve deeply into the research and recovery of a lost history of the Weisenheimer-Tuckus company. Among the many findings, a parcel of journals and workbooks belonging to the founding Weisenheimer and Tuckus were uncovered in a Winslow heritage storehouse, containing plans and drawings for an elaborate puppet performance of Francoise Rabelais's 1693 satirical epic, Gargantua and Pantagruel, never realized. Several hitherto undocumented marionettes and dioramas intended for the purpose were also recovered from private collections.

Today, Alouiscious Popplecard works to restore the unseen legacy of a Weisenheimer-Tuckus that could have been, reopening as an interdisciplinary studio dedicated to the production of humorous works of practical effects and puppetry-driven cinema, and made possible in conjunction with the Diagram Diagrams corporation.

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