striking clock
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.134
- Description
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Small striking mantel clock with silvered round convex dial and brass bezel in a walnut veneered arch top case
Round Coventry Astral movement with platform escpament.
- Production date
- 1920s (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 157 millimetres
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Width: 156 millimetres
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Depth: 124 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 p88-9
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 4 (Sep 2016) corroded
- 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
- 2012,8028.134
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 273 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
