While I was out on my porch photographing the Guild Mini-Vuer (see previous post), I went ahead and took some pix of this amazing, 110 year old mantle clock that I found recently as well. Produced around the tail end of the art nouveau era in 1913 by A. Schadow & Son, NY., this beautifully designed, antique time keeper no longer works, but it still looks mighty impressive in all of its heavy-duty, deco fonted, golden tombstone style. The bottom of the clock (see photo) suggests it was possibly a Republic Building & Loan Assn. promotion as the clock itself equally doubles as a key lock bank to store your spare change in (see slots on the back side photo below.) Further googling the company name of A. Schadow & Son for more info, I noticed they had quite a variety of different styled clocks, including a truly beautiful (and very nouveau looking) clock / lamp combo complete with an attractively sculpted nymph. I also wonder if "A. Schadow & Son" was actually a real father and son duo, or merely a clever name play on the concept of the original, ancient method of telling time-- the sundial (shadow and sun.)
6 comments:
I like your theory about the name, very clever. I'm also intrigued about an alarm clock that doubles as a security deposit lock box. I think it would be cute to shelve this thing with the safe door out and the clock mysteriously concealed.
I thought at first you were gonna say a clock that doubles as a tombstone— hey, a ghoul can scream dream, can’t he?
It would be pretty dang cool to have a large, broken clock set into my actual tombstone, now that you mention it....
That thing is a beauty. I love the really square font and the do-dads on the back. That'd look great on one of those old time giant mantels!
A bank clock, it's the last place a would-be burglar would think to search for money or valuables- in fact, that's still a good idea even today.
true!
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