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It has a hood with a flat projecting molded cornice over a brass and pewter dial. It is engraved with the maker's name, Roman numerals and decorated with cast metal "Cupid" patterned spandrels. They are enclosed by a door with a thumb molded edge and flanked by giet twisted columns. It is on a waisted case with a two panel thumb molded door with a circular glazed opening raised on a molded base. It is all grain-painted in shades of brown. It has brass works.
tall case clocks
timepieces
brass (alloy)
graining
pewter (tin alloy)
pine (wood)
tin (metal)
Pine
Brass
Pewter
Painted
Clock
Clock, Tall Case
Engraved on the dial is: MADE BY/DAVID BLASDEL/ IN ALMS'BURY/ M:DCC:L .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Blaisdell, David, 1712-1756 (Maker)
Amesbury, MA, USA
81 x 20 3/4 x 10 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.886
Massachusetts (United States)
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