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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF4060 |
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MakerClockmaker William Claggett, 16941749Casemaker Unknown |
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Date173049 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); walnut (some blocks on dial mat, hinge blocks); pine (top of dial mat, roof board, some blocks on dial mat); yellow poplar (sides of dial mat); oak (bottom of dial mat) |
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Marks"Will Claggett / Newport," engraved on tab below center arbor |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceRhode Island Historical Society, Providence, by 1933. Private collection, 2019 |
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Associated namesThe Rhode Island Historical Society |
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BibliographyWallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 3319, ill.Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks (New York: MacMillan Company, 1950), 27, fig. 13. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 242, WC-29. |