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1976.19.37.1

Long-case clock case with front door, made of wood, without mechanism. For the associated hood for the clock see 1976.19.37 .2 [RH [OPS move] 25/6/2018]

1976.19.37.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Long-case clock case with front door, made of wood, without mechanism. For the associated hood for the clock see 1976.19.37 .2 [RH [OPS move] 25/6/2018]
Cultural groups
English
Person
Maker Thomas Pinfold
Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood
PRM source Mary French
Date / Period
Date made: 1740-1760
Date collected
By 1976
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1976
Materials and processes
Material Oak Wood Plant, Material Brass Metal, Process Inscribed, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carpentered
Dimensions
Depth: max 245 mm, Width: max 432 mm, Length: max 2080 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1976.19.37.1
Research and responses

According to an email received by Jeremy Coote from Professor Derek Roe 29 April 2004 (original in RDF): 'As regards the long-case clock, that belonged to Beatrice Blackwood, and was in her flat when she died. She left it to the Pitt Rivers Museum, and had indicated that she would be happy for it to come to the newly established [Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary] Centre at No 60 [Banbury Road], since there wasn't an obvious place for it in the main buildings. (She had been a long-standing friend and colleague of Donald Baden-Powell, who died before she did....) The clock is nice:   English, country-made, I should think c. 1740-60, and very typical of its period. It is basically in working order, including the strike, but needs an overhaul - the Department [i.e. of Ethnology and Prehistory] paid for one or two, over the years, and also for new cords for the weight inside when the old ones wore out. It is a 30-hour clock, so needed winding every night, which I used to do before I went home: we kept it running for many years....' [JC 29 4 2004]

Another clock made by Thomas Pinfold is in the collections of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (1966-270/33). Printout of record in RDF. [JC 29 4 2004]

NB this item in Museum of History of Science said to come from Banbury not Middleton Cheney [AP 01/05/2007]

Search terms: Time, Writing, Measurement, Time Reckoning Device, Inscription, House

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