Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Clock, Tall Case |
Catalog Number |
96.39 |
Collection |
Timepiece |
Date |
c. 1790 |
Description |
Roxbury style maple and curly maple case. Freted bonnet with fluted columns tapered at top and bottom; brass capitals. Bonnet has three hollow ball and eagle finials. Trunk has fluted quarter columns with brass capitals. Tiger maple base with straight bracket feet.. Eight-day rack and snail brass movement, seconds bit. Rocking ship at top of dial is connected to the arbor of the acnhor escapement. Repainted iron dial signed Abel Hutchins, Concord. Shell motif decoration in the dial corners. Rocking ship, flying the American flag, appears to have its original paint. |
Maker |
Abel Hutchins |
Material |
maple, curly maple, brass, iron,j glass |
Place of Origin |
Concord, New Hampshire, USA |
Notes |
35mm slide, black and white, Neg. 444 20 slides in slide cabinet 1 Not confirmed that this is truely an Abel Hutchins. The movement style does not compare to other known A. Hutchins but it instead may be Levi and Abel Hutchins. It is early nineteenth century New Hampshire. |