Antique Clocks: School Clocks

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You saw this school clock, when I was defining regulator for you, and telling you what isn't and is a regulator clock. This obviously, is not a regulator, in the true sense of the word, but this is a school clock. These, like some of the other terms we talked about, school clock was not what these were called, when they were new. These were called Drop Octagons. Here's our octagon, and here's our drop underneath, so that it more described what you were looking at, than school clock, but as you can understand, the reason these got the name school clock, was because they ended up on the walls of thousands of schoolhouses throughout the country. This is a particularly small one, an unusual size, although many of them were made out of oak. They were usually bigger. Some of them, probably most of them, were just timepieces, single wind, as in not in the case of this one. You can see your two winding holes, so this is a striker, but you didn't want a clock that was bonging away in the classroom, so most of them were just timepieces, but there were variations of those too, so when you look for school clocks, you see them bigger. The more valuable one's, are what are called Long Drop School Clocks, where the drop here is maybe twice as long. Those cost more originally, and are more valuable now, and they also went from timepiece to striking, and often calendars. Well, where there would be a red hand, and one to thirty one around the outside of the dial. It would tell you the date, as well as the time.

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