Item #182617 Delware Clocks. Philip D. Zimmerman.
Delware Clocks
Delware Clocks

Delware Clocks

Dover, DE: Biggs Museum of American Art, 2006. Softcover. Blue color illustrated wraps with gold lettering, iii, 62 pp., color illustrations. VG- (minimal shelf wear at corners, all pages clear and intact). Item #182617
ISBN: 9781893287068

"The dates and manufacture of the thirty timepieces featured in Delaware Clocks range from 1741 to around 1815, the Golden Age of American and Delaware clock production. Fewer than fifty years after the European invention of the pendulum clock, fully developed examples were being made in almost every corner of the American colonies through the importation and copying of British and European examples, through immigrating craftsmen, and from the hands of locally apprenticed tradesmen ... Any study of this sort creates conceptural boundaries that must be addressed. In the chapters that follow, three identifiable schools of clockmakers are considered. Instead of reinventing the standard lists of Delaware craftasmen involved in clockmaking during this period, this publication attempts to bring into focus actual communities of artisans. As such, not all craftsmen involved in this localized industry are noted." - quoted from introduction.

OCLC: 71266484

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