Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Clock, Shelf |
Catalog Number |
80.21.1 |
Collection |
Timepiece |
Other Name |
steeple clock |
Date |
c.1853 |
Description |
30-hour time only brass movement. Marine lever escapement. Movement is spring driven. Label reads, "Thirty Hour Time-Piece Manufactured By Forestville Hardware & Clock Co. Forestville, (Bristol) CT." Case is small Gothic/steeple style. Lower tablet is frosted glass. Reference Jonathan Clark Brown and the Forestville Manufacturing Company by Kenneth D. Roberts and Snowden Taylor, 1988, pages 57-62. |
Maker |
Forestville Hardware and Clock Company |
Material |
brass, wood, glass |
Place of Origin |
Forestville, Connecticut, USA |
Notes |
Accessioned 29328 9 slides in slide cabinet 1 Cml |