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From: Paul J. Foley, Williard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900 (Norwell, Mass.: Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002), 91
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Banjo clock

Object number

RIF4617

Maker

Casemaker John Young, 1797?1884
Clockmaker David Williams, 1769?1823

Dimensions

Height: 42 1/2 in. (107.95 cm) Height, movement: 4 3/8 in. (11.113 cm)

Date

1818–23

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Marks

"D. WILLIAMS," in paint, on throat glass

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

Paul J. Foley, Willard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900 (Norwell, Mass.: Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002), 90–91, fig. 207–209.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 113n47.