timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8001.12
- Description
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Timepiece mantle clock, with a wooden rectangular dial with silver chapter and chrome plated bezel.
Circular back-wound movement, platform escapement
- Production date
- 1926 (movement design)
- Dimensions
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Height: 199 millimetres
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Width: 161 millimetres
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Depth: 95 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Elliott 'Mk1' timepiece with early use of triangular end-screw plate.
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 173
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 3 (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
- 2012,8001.12
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 278 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
