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The initial layout in a game of Grandfather's Clock. The clock face is for visualization. Grandfather's Clock is an easy patience or solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. [1]
A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock, with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights, suspended by ...
The Seymour tall case clock in the White House, more commonly known as the Oval Office grandfather clock, is an 8-foot-10-inch (269 cm) longcase clock, made between 1795 and 1805 in Boston by John and Thomas Seymour, and has been located in the Oval Office since 1975. [1]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 04:34, 2 December 2019: 534 × 691 (18 KB): Eiim: Fixed errors with newer Inkscape version: 19:37, 2 December 2007
Clocks from Winterhalder & Hofmeier are mechanical precision clocks with the quality standards of Black Forest craftsmanship. [4] [5] The numbers of the dial face are in Roman numerals. The dial face is embraced by wood. [6] The clocks can be identified by the engraved W & H SCH initial letters. Most of the clocks were made from 1850 to 1933.
The grandson laments the fate of the no-longer-functioning grandfather clock—it was sold to a junk dealer, who sold its parts for scrap and its case for kindling. In the grandfather's house, the clock was replaced by a wall clock , which the grandson disdains (referring to it as "that vain, stuck-up thing on the wall"). [ 2 ]
The reference to an earlier use of the term "grandfather clock" in the "Storyline" section has some serious problems: First, the source text cited is actually Wee Macgreegor, a collection of humorous sketches by "J.J.B."--the copy of Wee Macgreegor digitized by Google was bound with a much earlier edition of translations of Ovid by various hands (including John Dryden, thus the strange "Ovid ...
A number of his clocks survive, and frequently present features of special interest. [11] One of his longcase clocks, dated to around 1830, was featured on Antiques Roadshow and valued between £7,000 and £10,000. John passed away at his home in Scholes and was buried on the 14th July 1850 at All Saints' Church, Wigan. [2]