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No 1, Manners St, for a short season commencing Saturday August 28th. The wonderful apostolic Strasburg clock. [1886?]
- Date
- 1886
- Reference
- Eph-A-CLOCKS-1886-01
- Description
Shows a picture of the 12-foot high ornate clock, with painted panels, "the only perfect model of the great astronomical, musical, mechanical & apostolic clock ever constructed". The text inside describes the clock in detail (it featured St Peter and the Devil, Copernicus, and its constructor J B Schwilque), and gives the history of its construction.
Two other leaflets at the same location, are slight variations on this one - one advertises for Alexandra Hall, on 17 May of the same year, and one is undated. The undated one was donated by the estate of John Mansfield Thomson.
Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on folded leaflet..
Physical Description: Letterpress on front of leaflet, 245 x 174 mm.
Provenance: Undated one was donated by the estate of John Mansfield Thomson.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: File print in Ephemera Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Ephemera, pamphlets and booklets relating to clocks and watches, watch repair, time-keeping, time zones and daylight saving. 1800-2000s]
- Format
- 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on folded leaflet., Ephemera, Letterpress works, Exhibition catalogues, Letterpress on front of leaflet, 245 x 174 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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