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Clock type · Domestic

Hooded Wall Clocks

Partially verified

Small wall-mounted clocks with a hood resembling that of a longcase, but with weights hanging exposed below.

Movement & mechanism

  • Thirty-hour or eight-day weight-driven movements
  • Anchor escapement with a short pendulum
  • Movement supported on a wall bracket or seat board

Identification

  • Hood similar to a longcase but no trunk or base
  • Weights hanging visibly below the case
  • Often provincial work with local dial styles

Terminology

  • Hood
  • Seat board
  • Thirty-hour

Known variations

  • Single- and two-handed versions

Collecting notes

Originality decides value and interest: check that movement, dial and case belong together, and prefer honest wear over refinishing. Movement work belongs with a clockmaker; cleaning a dial or case yourself commonly destroys the evidence that dates the clock.

Related photographs

Longcase clock
Longcase clock — AKS.9955, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons file page

No confidently matched photograph of this subject has been found yet. These photographs show a closely related record, and are not examples of the type described on this page.

Sources & references

  1. Britten, F. J., Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers
  2. Loomes, B., reference works on British clockmakers (edition-dependent)
  3. Museum catalogue descriptions of comparable examples

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.