timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.10
- Description
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Timepiece mantle clock with rectangular printed dial in a black and gold painted metal case.
Thirty-hour pin-pallet movement
- Production date
- c1960
- Dimensions
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Height: 121 millimetres
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Width: 138 millimetres
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Depth: 70 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This model is thought to be the last 30-hr timepiece made by Smiths. Produced from c.1957, it had greatly reduced and skeletonised plates.
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 p233-4, 5.135-5.136
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 5 (Sep 2016) corrosion on case and movement plate
- 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
- 2012,8028.10
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 103 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)