Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1961.064.053ab |
Object Name |
Clock, Wall |
Lexicon category |
5: T&E For Science & Technology |
Date |
post-1875 |
Year Range from |
1875 |
Year Range to |
1910 |
Artist |
Seth Thomas |
Made |
Seth Thomas |
Place of Origin |
Thomaston, Connecticut, United States of America |
Description |
SETH THOMAS eight-day wall clock (a) with gilt-coloured pillar decoration on either side of central face, late 19th-c. There is a polychromatic image of a young girl. Pendulum (b) The clock was manufactured by the Seth Thomas clockworks at Thomaston, Connecticut. It is likely a post-1875 item? -weight-driven |
Provenance |
This item was manufactured by the Seth Thomas clockworks at Thomaston, Connecticut. It is likely a post-1875 item. It was last owned by Beatrice McDonald (née McKinley) who grew up in Bognor, Sydenham Township, Grey County. She married Peter McDonald. Her father, William McKinley, was a blacksmith there. Her mother was Mary Penner of Grey County. Beatrice McDonald later lived at Chatsworth, Grey County. She likely was also related to Wm. McKinley Sr. (b. 1819 in Scotland) and his wife Beatrice McKinley (b. 1829 in Scotland). This older couple had emigrated in 1856. They too were in the 1901 census, as were her parents. Beatrice McDonald, was a grand-daughter of William Penner of Sullivan Township, Grey County, who had emigrated from Ireland in the 19th-century. This item may have come from that side of her family, or have been acquired in Canada. The c.1880 map of Sullivan Township present in the H. Belden illustrated atlas of Grey County has the Wm. Penner farm labelled. |
Collection |
Horology, 19th-c Collection |
Material |
Wood/Metal |
Found |
Grey County, Ontario |
People |
McDonald, Peter |