Object Details
- Description
- Joseph Hall of London, England, made this clock about 1680. It is a weight-driven style of domestic clock made entirely of metal and named after its shape, which roughly resembles a lantern. English emigrants from Bermuda purportedly brought the clock to Massachusetts around 1700.
- At that time, a brass lantern clock or a tall case clock with a brass movement would have been among the most expensive items its owners possessed. More important as status symbols than as precise timekeepers, the clocks often had only an hour hand. Most people did not require to-the-minute accuracy.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- G. Norman Albree
- ca 1700
- ID Number
- CL.334367
- catalog number
- 334367
- accession number
- 314557
- Object Name
- clock
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall - clock: 10 in x 4 1/8 in x 5 in; 25.4 cm x 10.4775 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall - pendulum: 2 1/4 in x 1 3/8 in x 3/8 in; 5.715 cm x 3.4925 cm x .9525 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_659479
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-b9f2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
