pedometer
- Museum number
- 1958,1006.2476
- Description
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Pedometer; silver; in form of watch; outer fixed dial ring; steel hand operated by pulling pendant; signed on rotating disc; domed glass.
- Production date
- 1775-1785
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 42 millimetres
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Thickness: 16 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Ward 1981
The outer fixed dial ring is divided 1-100, every tenth division numbered. The stell hand moves through one division for each pull of the pendant. The inner disc is also similarly divided 1-100, and makes one revolution for every 101 pulls. It therefore lags very nearly one division behind the hand, and the reading of the hand on the scale on the disc records the number of hundreds of operations.
Signed on the rotating disc: SPENCER & PERKINS SNOW HILL LONDON.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
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Latest: 3 (Mar 2017)
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3 (Jan 1995); CHECK INSIDE
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- The Ilbert Collection of clocks, prints and other related material was destined to be sold at Christie's auction house on 6th-7th November 1958. As a result of the generous donation of funds by Gilbert Edgar CBE the sale was cancelled and the material purchased privately from the beneficiaries of the Ilbert Estate.
Ilbert's watches were then acquired with further funds from Gilbert Edgar CBE, public donations and government funds. These were then registered in the series 1958,1201.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1958,1006.2476
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: C37a (Ilbert Ledger)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: CAI.2476 (Ilbert Collection)
