timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8001.17
- Description
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Timepiece mantel with round silvered dial with silvered bezel in a mahogany arched case with copper applique moldings
Swiss platform escapement.
- Production date
- 1926 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 163 millimetres
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Depth: 79 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The movement is unsigned and unnumbered, but has a lowevered area on the back plate, which is likely where the retailer has removed the makers details.
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 172
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2012,8001.17
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 321 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
