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Pillar Clock, Japan, 19th Century

Inventory Number 42486


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.42486

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by G.J.S. Mouncy Atkinson.
Primary inscriptions
None.
Object type
Clock
Dimensions
Height: 385mm Width: 55mm Depth: 65mm Weight: 767g
Inventory No
42486
Accession Number
?1955

Description

A pillar clock from japan, the mechanism of the clock sits at the top behind a removable cover, beneath this is a coloumn with japanese numerals along which a copper alloy marker moves. There is a small draw at the bottom of the clock.