long-case clock;
striking clock;
weight-driven clock
- Museum number
- 2009,8018.2
- Description
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Oak longcase clock.
Solid oak case with break-arch top, the sliding hood with brass corinthian capped oak pillars flanking the opening door. Trunk door with wavy top.
Brass dial plate with applied silver chapter ring, with hours I-XII and fleur-de-lis half-hour marks. Subsidiary seconds dial below XII. Applied gilded-brass crown and cherub spandrels. In the arch, gilded-brass dolphin spandrels flank a silvered disc.The blued-steel hands are not original.
Weight-driven eight-day movement with anchor escapement and seconds-beating pendulum with steel rod and brass bob. Rack striking mechanism sounding on a steel gong.
Two brass-lined driving weights, winding key and door key.
- Production date
- 1905-1910
- Dimensions
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Height: 2240 millimetres (case)
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Width: 565 millimetres (case)
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Depth: 320 millimetres (case)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 'Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century : the industrialized manufacture of domestic mechanical clocks' by John Glanville and William M. Wolmuth, Crowood Press , 2015 p 74-76, fig3.41 - 3.44 for more details of this clock.
Eight day movement
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2009
- Acquisition notes
- This clock is part of the Glanville and Wolmuth Collection, a comprehensive collection of twentieth century domestic mechanical factory-made clocks made in England and Wales.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2009,8018.2
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 201 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)