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practice display clock
MISCELLANEOUS
clock
Norville Optical Company Limited
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Gloucestershire, Gloucester
1990s?
metal; wood
overall: 418 mm x 305 mm x 17 mm

Clock, promoting an optical manufacturing company. Light grey aluminium, rectangular panel with etched round clock face and reproduction of a 1741 etching by Johann Dietrich of the itinerant spectacle pedlar/seller/vendor calling at a cottage door. Ornate yellow metal hands. Battery operated from rear-mounted mechanism. In a later (21st c.) wooden box frame with gilded edge.


2020.230

Gift Mr Lyndon R. Taylor FCOptom and Mrs Elizabeth A. Taylor FCOptom, 2020



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