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The case has a guitar-like shape; on a red background are applied stylized swags and a design of a potted tree and various crescent and circular devices; there is a hinged cover of the clockface; the clockface is tombstone-shaped and painted white with gilt and red flourishes at the spandrels and crest; black arabic numerals; the weights and the pendulum hang through a hole in the base.
wall clocks
timepieces
birch (wood)
metal
painting (coating)
Birch
Unidentified Metal
Painted
Clock, Wall
Branded on the inside of the case is ""3 x 5-""IISNS."" On a paper label on the inside of the case is the number ""320.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
27 1/2 x 11 1/4 x 5 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1003
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