The current mystery to be solved is whether Harry Senior or his son, Harry Junior, built this masterpiece. The case is 38” high, 24” wide, and includes two Silver Jubilee medallions and a photograph of the king at the top. It was constructed in the tramp art style with its hundreds of characteristic carved notches in the cigar box wood. TRAMP ART CLOCK: This unique clock was made in Welland, Ontario in 1934-1935 by Harry Sykes as a tribute to the 25th anniversary of King George V’s reign over the British Empire from 1910 to 1935. There is a display of typical 1920s – 1930s dishes, glass pitchers and vases, seltzer bottles, and an English silver-plated tea and coffee set for visitors of all ages to enjoy. The clock case extends 29” above the top. It was not shown in any Pequegnat company catalogues, but would have been available on special order at significant cost for sure. Pequegnat Berlin, Ontario movement Buffet Clock The museum is still looking for the smaller MING TREE model. It is 47” wide and would have taken up significant space on a family’s dining room wall. Shown here is the largest model, which they called THE VIKING. But they also produced several screen-printed, wood panel wall clocks. SNIDER: Harry Snider and his younger son, Michael, designed and manufactured many dozen ‘starburst’ wall models in Toronto in the 1960s. The museum’s own reference library has more than six hundred books plus several hundred issues of magazines published for watch and clock collectors. Catharines, early 1960s-1979).Įxamples of some of these are shown below, but most of them can be seen in the Galleries on the museum’s web site at Research has led to the publication of articles about four Canadian companies in the Bulletin of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors in Pennsylvania. There are also significant collections of Walter mantel clocks (Toronto, late 1930s-mid 1950s) and Girotti wall clocks (St. The holdings now total more than three thousand examples that include major collections of Pequegnat clocks (Berlin/Kitchener 1904-1941), Westclox alarm and wall models (Peterborough, 1920-mid 1980s), and Snider clocks (Toronto, 1950-1976). In 2019 this unique museum – Allan Symons’ ‘retirement’ project – celebrates twenty years of telling the Canadian clocks story. Its focus continues to be on Canadian-made and Canadian label clocks that date from the early 1800s to the present time. The Canadian Clock Museum, Canada’s only clock museum, opened to the public in Deep River, Ontario in May 2000. The Canadian Clock Museum in Deep River, Ontario
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