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Brackets on the Cumming Clock, c.1767 (metal)

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WCC440178
Image title
Brackets on the Cumming Clock, c.1767 (metal)
Artist
English School, (18th century) / English
Location
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' Collection, UK
Medium
metal
Image description

The remaining parts of a timekeeper by Alexander Cumming (1733-1814) of Fleet Street, London, later converted to a conventional marine chronometer and re-signed by his nephew John Grant, England c. 1767; the timekeeper may be the one referred to in a letter from Alexander Small (1710-1794) to Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), with which Cumming hoped to win part of the famous Longitude Prize of 1714; brackets fitted by Grant, to suspend the timekeeper from gimbles;

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© Worshipful Company of Clockmakers / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
interior / cogs / timepiece / clock / mechanism / horology / bracket
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