alarm clock
- Museum number
- 2017,8031.4
- Description
-
Timepiece mantle clock with alarm in nickel-plated brass drum case.
Case:
Nickel-plated brass drum case with two small feet brass. Bell above with ring on top. Winding key and hand-set button on rear of case. (Alarm set button missing).
Dial:
Circular paper dial having outer minute track with five minute markers, roman hour numerals (I-XII). Subsidiary alarm-setting dial below XII with quarter-hour track and arabic hour numerals (1-12). Blued steel spade hour and minute hands, (alarm hand missing).
Movement:
30hr timepiece movement with alarm. Open spring (powering going train and alarm). Pin pallet escapement.
- Production date
- 1877 (Patented)
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 104 millimetres
-
Height: 170 millimetres (max)
-
Depth: 68 millimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Curator's comments
-
This clock is an Ansonia 'Peep-o-day' alarm clock, a forerunner to the BUCC Victor alarm clock, (see 2017.8031.3)
Interesting 5 part balance wheel. Very rare clock.
(Information courtesy of Peter Gosnell)
-
For further information on BUCC company and selected clocks see 'Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century', John Glanville & William Wolmuth, 2015, pp16-33.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
-
Latest: 4 (Jan 2018)
-
On acquisition: Foxing to paper dial, heavy discolouration - possibly rust behind? Oily. Possibly this is paper covered with celluloid?? Both alarm hand and its setter now missing.
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2017,8031.4
