Clock, Wall

Object Name:

Clock, Wall

Object ID:

1972.089.083

Creator:

Ingraham, Elias CompanyClockmaker

Place of Origin:

Bristol, CT

Date:

circa 1885

Description:

Wall Clock. "Round Drop" calendar type. Materials: unidentified woods; paper (dial); brass; glass/ secondary woods white pine and tulip poplar (?). Two circular glass doors with wooden bezels, one above the other. Upper dial door almost twice as large in diameter. Narrow rectangular case with rounded lower edge. Case is equal in width to diameter of lower door. Elaborately scrolled brackets applied to sides of case between the doors. A decorative turned boss on the front of each bracket. Reverse painted gilt and black border around clear glass reserve at center of lower door panel. Doors secured with brass hooks. Round printed paper dial backed with zinc and rimmed with brass. Roman hour numerals; arabic day-of-the-month numerals; pierced steel hour and minute hands matching in design; steel calendar hand with moon-shaped terminal painted red; two winding holes, one with metal grommet, below center of dial. Printed mark at lower edge of dial: "MADE BY THE E. INGRAHAM CO., BRISTOL, CONN., U.S.A.". Eight-day brass movement with strike. Impressed mark on front of plate: "E. INGRAHAM CO. / PATd_ OCT. 8. 78 NOV.11.79 / BRISTOL. CONN." Name and town of company also cast in gong support. Woods unidentified. Sides and rounded bottom of case veneered. Bezels laminated in two layers. Brown and yellow striped graining on bezels, on racheted areas between bezels and on front of dial framework. Top of case painted black. Brass hanger. Some nail holes at bottom of backboard. Figures "771" impressed in top of case. Separately stored parts: winding key marked "Ingraham & Co. / Bristol Conn.", elaborate pendulum bob.

Material:

Wood
Glass
Metal
Brass
Paper

Dimensions:

H-24 W-16.5 D-4.375 inches

Provenance:

Clock made by The E. Ingraham Co., Bristol, CT (business name came into use starting 1884). Part of a large clock collection (and related materials) including not only clocks made in N.H., but also several made elsewhere, acquired in N.H. 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

People:

Ingraham, Edward (1830-1892), Parsons, Charles S. (1904-1988)