- Date
- 1883 – 1920
- Material
- wood; metal; glass; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.1002 a-c
- Description
- A wooden framed mantle clock with fancy woodwork on top and side, left side has brass thermometer (mercury tube is missing) and on right side would have been a barometer but it is missing. Glass door is 37.5 high X 19.6 wide, clock face rim is metal and face is paper with roman numerals to XII and …
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- Title
- Mantle Clock
- Date
- 1883 – 1920
- Material
- wood; metal; glass; paper
- Dimensions
- 49.3 x 31.7 cm
- Description
- A wooden framed mantle clock with fancy woodwork on top and side, left side has brass thermometer (mercury tube is missing) and on right side would have been a barometer but it is missing. Glass door is 37.5 high X 19.6 wide, clock face rim is metal and face is paper with roman numerals to XII and outside that, numbers 1 to 31 for a calendar, metal pendulum has fast/slow feature. Brass workings inside clock. It was patented Dec 11, 1883. The clock was attached to a base but base is missing.
- Subject
- households
- timekeeping
- Credit
- Gift of Ed (Mrs.) Jamieson, Banff, 1966
- Catalogue Number
- 104.47.1002 a-c
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