timepiece;
eight-day clock
- Museum number
- 2012,8028.19
- Description
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Timepiece mantel clock with square wooden dial, chrome plated bezel in an art deco style oak case.
- Production date
- c1950
- Dimensions
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Height: 183 millimetres
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Width: 224 millimetres
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Depth: 84 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Smiths 'D' type 8-day movement. At this time Smiths and Ingersoll shared a factory at Ystradgynlais in South Wales.
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 239-240
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 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
- 2012,8028.19
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 340A (Glanville & Wolmuth Collection)
