eight-day clock;
timepiece
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.141
- Description
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Timpiece mantle clock with round silvered dial, chrome plated bezel in mahogany and ebonised arch top case
Going barrel 8 day movement
- Production date
- 1924-1929 (? Empire first produced in 1924, trademark design changed in 1929)
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 215 millimetres
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Depth: 136 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Whilst not marked 'Williamson' this clock is likely to have been made by the company whilst they were part of the 'English Clock and Watch Manufacturers Ltd', probably between 1924 (when they first introduced the Empire range) and 1929, when the Empire stamp changed from straight plain text to a 'Empire' on a waving banner across a globe. The Empire range continued to be made after ECWM was taken over by Smiths, but it is probably this clock is earlier.
For further details see 'Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century: The Industrialized Manufacture of Domestic Mechanical Clocks' by John Glanville & William M Wolmuth. Pub. The Crowood Press Ltd. 2015, p89-93
- 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
- 2012,8028.141
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 56 (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
