Just got a tower clock. Does anyone know anything about it?

[smcd]

Hello all.

My first post here. My father left me this tower clock. I know a few things about it. It was made in 1873 and was in a local church for about 100 years until the town gutted the building. My father bought it (for fifteen dollars) in the 1970's, and it's sat since.


Does anyone know what this is? Is it a "tower clock"?

[JB]

He left you a gem, to say the least Very nice!

[bangster]

It is a tower clock, and it is a *Honey*! Stay tuned, as comments accumulate.

bangster

[bangster]

An eager question: Do you have any more parts? Like the dials, or the drive shafts that moved the hands??

[FDelGreco]

It's an E. Howard, and there should be a serial number on it some place, sometimes painted on the inside of the frame or on the end. Then if you are an NAWCC member, you could go to our online E. Howard tower clock ledger and find out about that actual clock -- how much it originally cost, when it was made, information about the original installation, and so forth. We have digitized the original ledgers from the company.

Frank Del Greco

[gvasale]

You do know that the top and one side of the timside upright are broken. Do you have the broken pieces? Still, way better to have it and put it back together than it being in a landfill or with theToyota name on it. You're also missing a few other items unless they are not in the pictures. Scrape away the accumulation of dust etc on the end shown in the third photo where you shoul find the sn. on the top flat of the frame.

[smcd]

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[smcd]

An eager question: Do you have any more parts? Like the dials, or the drive shafts that moved the hands??

As far as I know, everything I have is right there. The dials never came with the clock, I know that for sure. I don't recall a drive shaft either. I think those parts may belong to the town historical society.

[smcd]

It's an E. Howard, and there should be a serial number on it some place, sometimes painted on the inside of the frame or on the end. Then if you are an NAWCC member, you could go to our online E. Howard tower clock ledger and find out about that actual clock -- how much it originally cost, when it was made, information about the original installation, and so forth. We have digitized the original ledgers from the company.

Frank Del Greco

The only set of numbers I can see is "175" stamped into the top edge of the frame. Could that be the serial number?

[smcd]

You do know that the top and one side of the timside upright are broken. Do you have the broken pieces? Still, way better to have it and put it back together than it being in a landfill or with theToyota name on it. You're also missing a few other items unless they are not in the pictures. Scrape away the accumulation of dust etc on the end shown in the third photo where you shoul find the sn. on the top flat of the frame.

Though I know nothing about the clock, I did see clearly that the casting on the top.... thing... is broken. I doubt I have the broken parts.

[gvasale]

smcd: I see you hail from Massachusetts. What was the original location of the clock. I need to fill holes in my database. Yes the 175 is the serial number.

[smcd]

smcd: I see you hail from Massachusetts. What was the original location of the clock. I need to fill holes in my database. Yes the 175 is the serial number.

The original location was a Protestant church in Nahant.

[gvasale]

Thank you. Next, is the church still there? if so does it still have a clock? If so do you have any more information about it?

[Ray Fanchamps]

Here's a long shot but.......
Occasionally we see pictures here where clocks have been adapted to an electric motor and the parts have been left lying around in the clock room of the original installation. If that were my clock (and I wish it were) I would already be in the car............
It's a great clock and well worth some hunting for parts. Of course that's assuming no-one reading this has already headed out there

[smcd]

Thank you. Next, is the church still there? if so does it still have a clock? If so do you have any more information about it?

The clock, remnants, and the steeple it was housed in are long long gone. The steeple was removed from the building when it no longer functioned as a church. Just before the steeple was removed, everything in the church was sold off in a sealed bid auction. It was in this auction that my father acquired this clock. The church has undergone several transformations over the past 40 years. It's now a private residence, but it was a YMCA, among other things.