Lantern Clock
date: label: date made
content: ca 1700
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: G. Norman Albree
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.334367
label: catalog number
content: 334367
label: accession number
content: 314557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clock
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - clock: 10 in x 4 1/8 in x 5 in; 25.4 cm x 10.4775 cm x 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: 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