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Paint and gilt decorated tombstone dial with Roman and Arabic numerals. It has green and yellow banded spandrels, a floral spray in a shaped reserve above the dial.
dials
timepieces
gilding
painting (coating)
numerals
Wood
Painted
Gilded
Numbers
Clock
An indistinct painted signature on the clock face reads: Silas Hoadley, Plymouth. Incised on the back is: MDCCLXV . And on a NFL label on the back is: S. Hoadley, Plymouth.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Hoadley, Silas, 1786-1870 (Maker)
Plymouth, CT, USA
16 1/8 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.911
Connecticut (United States)
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