timepiece;
eight-day clock
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.133
- Description
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Timepiece mantle clock with round silvered dial, brass bezel, in an inlaid mahogany arch top case.
Going barrel 8 day rectangular movement with platform escapement.
- Production date
- c1920
- Dimensions
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Height: 321 millimetres
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Width: 229 millimetres
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Depth: 149 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 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 82-3
- 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
- 2012,8028.133
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 270 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
