striking clock
- Museum number
- 2012,8001.1
- Description
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Striking mantle clock with round silvered dial with chromed bezel in mahogany napoleon hat style case
Platform escapement.
- Production date
- 1933 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 192 millimetres
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Width: 352 millimetres
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Depth: 156 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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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 p169-171
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F.W. Elliott 'Imperial' striking clock with Rotherham platform escapement.
These clocks are more commonly seen with a pendulum, but platform escapements could be substituted at extra cost. This is the only Imperial striking clock John has seen with a platform escapement.
-J. Glanville
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 4 (Sep 2016)
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- 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
- 2012,8001.1
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 245 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
