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The start of this clock making business dates back to 1920’s America when the annual salary was $1,236 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 100. The Ridgeway grandfather clock story is one many decades in the making. Its styling is different than most that I see in that this example has a bit of a neo-classical appearance in the shape of the pediment and in the presence of various types of Greco-Roman ornamentation. As such Hall clocks go this example was made fairly early, circa 1970, at the height of interest in such clocks. Movement – Not seen but assumed original to this case, genuine and remaining functional. A long pendulum rod and brass bob swings at the back of the movement.ĬONDITION: Case – A very handsome and well thought out Hall clock, a bit bulky aesthetically but overall, well balanced, colorful and well made. They power the clock for eight days, for striking the hours on short metal rods and for playing one of three chimes quarterly by using eight movement hammers striking on eight varying length metal rods. There would be an anchor recoil escapement, three sprocket gears to take up the manually wound link chain for each of the three weights. The movement would have solid brass plates connected by tubular brass pillars screwed with nuts, washers and screws to hold the two plates together. MOVEMENT: Not shown but would usually be an imported German made movement, either made by Urgos, Franz Hermle or Kieninger, all located in West Germany.
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A lever above the dial is for setting one of the three choices of chimes: Westminster, Whittington and Winchester. The lunette has a global ‘boss’’ marked for Tempus Fugit (Time Flies) flanked by two foliate boss spandrels. The main dial is marked for Ridgeway in the dial center and at the base of the hour chapter ring, “Western Germany”. Below that is a short stepped cornice leading down to the broad base moulding which sits flat to the floor with no feet.ĭIAL: This is an arched brass dial plate with a silvered Arabic hour chapter ring, applied brass hours in circular cartouche form, foliate half hour markers, textured matte gilt dial center, steel Chippendale-style hands and applied ‘chieftain’ silvered spandrels in the four dial corners. A concave moulding leads one down to the square base with inset panel ornamented with a Dore bronze laurel wreath in the center and brass foliate spandrels in each of the four corners.
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The trunk door is flanked again by two ebonized and gilt half columns to either side of the trunk façade. The glazed door allows one to observe the fall of the three brass canister weights and the arc of the pendulum as it swings.
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There is a full length glazed rectilinear door with a horizontal frieze above decorated with a Dore bronze anthemion having a central rosette. Just below the hood is an ogival-shaped moulding transitioning down to the trunk. The tympanum has an arched cornice above the arched glazed dial door flanked by ebonized and patinated gilt half round colonnettes. Below is a stepped overhung cornice above the tympanum of the hood which has two shaped four-sided panels applied above the dial. ‘My Dad bought it in 1972 and it's been in my family ever since.’ĬASE: 74" high, 18" wide, 11" deep, cherrywood/maple, Hall clock with a caddy top pediment above the canted solid fretwork with applied Dore bronze laurel wreath with tied ribbon bow decoration applied to the fret. (See history below) Accompanied by the original warranty card of the Graveley Furniture Company. I shall try to help you with that tonight.Ĭherrywood and maple with Dore bronze ornaments, three chain driven weights, eight-day time, strike and quarterly chiming (three choices of chimes) Hall clock (name for the modern grandfather clock since 1898), Model Q-339, cabaret finish, serial number 1112, ‘Tempus Fugit’ Ridgeway clock, using imported German movement and made and sold by the Gravely Furniture Company of Ridgeway, Virginia, circa 1970-1972. Thank you for sending in this family Hall clock to for an appraisal.