timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8001.7
- Description
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Small timpiece mantel clock with an octagonal silvered dial with chrome plated bezel in mahogany art deco case
- Production date
- early 1930s
- Dimensions
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Height: 159 millimetres
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Width: 256 millimetres
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Depth: 88 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is an Elliot 'Imperial' timepiece movement from the 19302, but it does not have a Rotherham platform (used from 1929), suggesting it was possibly made in early 1930s before Rotherhams was properly in production.
-J. Glanville.
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 p174-5
- 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
- 2012,8001.7
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 263 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
