Clock, Shelf
- Object Name:
- Clock, Shelf
- Object ID:
- 1972.089.013
- Creator:
- Brewster & Ingrahams
Clockmaker - Place of Origin:
- Bristol, CT
- Date:
- 1844-1852
- Description:
- Shelf Clock. Made by Brewster & Ingrahams, Bristol, CT. "Beehive" or "Round Gothic" type. Materials: walnut; zinc (dial); brass (movement); glass; secondary wood white pine and unidentified hardwood. Plain base. Sides curving in to join at top, forming a Gothic arch. Front of arch convex-molded at outer edge. Dial attached to recessed wooden framework within top of arch. A single door contains both circular dial glass above and rectangular glass panel below. Both dial bezel and lower panel frame are convex-molded. Decorative etching on lower glass panel including crosshatched gothic arch flanked by crossed branches with berried dependent from top. Brass lock and lozenge-shaped bone keyhole escutcheon on lower portion of door.
Round painted zinc dial having convex chapter ring. Roman hour numerals; steel hour and minute hands differing in design; two winding holes at bottom of dial. Eight-day brass movement with strike. Impressed mark on front plate of movement: "BREWSTER & INGRAHAMS / BRISTOL Ct. / U S", with first line repeated below.
Visible outer surface of case veneered with walnut. Door veneered on unidentified hardwood. Large printed label glued to inner surface of lower backboard, reading in part: "PATENT SPRING EIGHT-DAY / REPEATING BRASS CLOCKS, / MADE AND SOLD BY / BREWSTER & INGRAHAMS, / BRISTOL, CONN." Small overpasted printed label reading "A. L. RUSSELL / CLOCK REPAIRER / 111 ROCKAWAY STREET, / Postal orders will receive prompt / attention. Telephone Connection." Chalk inscription on backboard reading in part: "Mr. Bramhall". Several illegible pencil inscriptions on back, apparently giving names and dates re cleanings and/or repairs.
Separately stored parts: pendulum bob, key, winding key. - Material:
- Wood
Walnut
Glass
Metal
Zinc
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-18.875 W-10.626 D-4.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Clock made by Brewster & Ingrahams (in business 1843-1852), Bristol, CT. Part of a large clock (and related materials) collection, including not only clocks made in New Hampshire, but also several made elsewhere, acquired in New Hampshire by the donor (Charles S. Parsons, 1904-1988) and probably used here. However, no information about New Hampshire acquisition or use provided with regard to this clock.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Charles S. Parsons
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