Antique Clocks: Banjo Clocks

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We talked a lot about banjo clocks, or Simon Willard and his improved time piece earlier. But this is really a lasting American style, another iconic American style. So the Connecticut factories where not going to miss out on a marketing opportunity like that. So they began, again in the late 1800's to mass produce banjo clocks, often in full size forms, often in miniature forms, which are cute and collectible as well. But you can own this style of clock, a banjo clock, certainly for hundreds of dollars, rather than the thousand of dollars that you'd have to spend for an older period banjo. And the advantage with these to, is that they can do that striking that so many people want to hear, you can see this would be a timing strike clock because it has the two holes. And this one actually is pretty late, this is from around 1931. And you can almost see the deco kind of influence here, with these blues and these colors, that are quite different than the earlier banjo clocks we saw, that might have naval scenes or some other more patriotic, than used within them. Then we also always want to turn it around, see what else we can find. Often on the back of these New Haven clocks is the label telling us, not only information about who made the clock and what clock it is, but often even stamped in the model name. As we see in here this is the Waring. I suppose more research needs to be done to figure out why they thought Waring was a good name for a banjo clock. But you don't need to know that to enjoy and appreciate these 20th century versions of an American standard.

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