eight-day clock;
timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.130
- Description
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Timepiece wall clock with rectangular wooden dial in rectangular oak case.
- Production date
- c1952
- Dimensions
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Height: 333 millimetres
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Width: 351 millimetres
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Depth: 91 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The movement in this clock is almost identical to that seen in 2012,8028.133 (GW270), That clock was made by H Williamson c.1920, this clock by Smiths c.1950.
This is the model '123' which was front wound. Smiths also made a similar model, '277' which had rear winding and hand-set (see 2012,8028.137). They also offered the option of a seconds hand.
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 240-241
- 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
- 2012,8028.130
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 148 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
