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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval lead alloy toy clock (17th - 18th century). The circular clock face has a crown above and is set atop an openwork frame. The clock face has the numbers I, II, III, IIII, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII running clockwise with a pellet between each number and an internal and external twisted rope border. There is an hour and a minute hand pointing at XII and III with a horizontal bar connecting III and IX. There is a single arched crown above and an openwork frame below. The frame is incomplete with the right side and the lower section missing. To each side of the clock face are some open work scroll motifs and then below is a band of vertical twisted rope pillars with a central pellet on each one. The next section is the most incomplete with only one side present. There are three central ring and dots motifs arranged in a trefoil; then what appears to be one side of a pointed arch with a quatrefoil in a twisted rope border before the side edge which is a complete edge and not broken. This side edge again has some scrolled decoration.This toy clock is unlike any of the examples illustrated in Toys, Trifles and Trinkets, the openwork frame precludes the pocket watches and the crown above marks it as unusual as a long case clock or as a building. Hazel Forsyth suggests it could be a big, elaborate bracket clock. Dimensions: length: 33.33mm; length including folded over section: 58mm; width: 25.56mm; thickness: 0.90mm; weight: 2.89g.Identification by Hazel Forsyth, Senior Post Medieval Curator, Museum of London.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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