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Terms
  • Clock Hands
  • Metal
Dimensions1.2 × 8.9 cm (1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Object numberTH92.4
DescriptionTwo clock hands and washer (TH92.4) to patent timepiece (banjo clock, TH92) and clock face TH92.3. Mahogany, mahogany veneer; gilded pine, painted glass, brass, steel. Mahogany veneered case with gilded rope turnings around neck and tablet. Dial enameled and inscribed, partly rubbed off. Brass strips on either side of neck. Painted glass panel, probably original on neck and similar one with two boys and a man fishing in a river spanned by an arched bridge in tablet. Gilded acorn finial at top. 9 gilded balls under the bracket which has an acorn drop. See Th89 for correspondence. "Curtis" style. Painted face and two hands on NS, shelf 2.
Collections
  • Henry David Thoreau Collection
Patent timepiece (banjo clock) by Samuel Whiting
Object number: Th92
Samuel Whiting
1820-1830
Variant Patent Timepiece
Object number: 2012.1
Aaron Willard Jr. (shop of)
1805 - 1815
Patent Timepiece
Object number: F2530
Joseph Dyer
1816-1819
Shelf Clocks
Object number: 2003.15.1
Asaph Whitcomb
1808-1812
Object number: 2012.2
Lemuel Curtis
1812 - 1819
Object number: 2017.5.1
Daniel Munroe & Co
1802-1804
banjo
Object number: H1010
Samuel Whiting
1815-1835
Eight-day Clocks
Object number: 1995.17
William Munroe Sr.
ca. 1800
Eight-day Clocks
Object number: 2001.018
William Munroe Sr.
1805 - 1810
Timepieces
Object number: 1998.2
Daniel Munroe
1805 - 1810