The Globe Clock Co. Clock

Description:

The Globe Clock Co. Clock, Milldale, Connecticut, c. 1883, 9-in. globe with twelve colored lithographed paper gores with cartouche reading in part J. Schedler's Terrestrial Globe, painted tin horizon band with world city names and reading The Globe Clock Co. Milldale, CT. Pat'd Jan 9 1883, with outer scale divided 0-180, inner equatorial time ring divided 1-12 for day and night, brass meridian ring and minute dial, attached to a binnacle mounted black-painted steel housing, enclosing the skeletonized double spring movement reading L. Hubbell, with lever escapement, all resting on a faux marble and black-painted base, ht. 18 in.

Provenance: Chris Bailey; Terry and Karen Brotherton.

Literature: Horological Rarities of Space City '99, p. 27 (illustrated).
Estimate $4,000-6,000


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