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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 247614, member: 25&quot;]The clock partially shown in the picture does not look like a Vienna to me.The dial is too large. It is also too short. Probably an American wall clock from one of the many makers. I&#039;d date it around 1900 from what I can see.</p><p><br /></p><p>The true Vienna regulator started out as an Austrian made wall clock around the early to mid 19th C. They were relatively plain (check Biedermeir style) and usually high quality and price&nbsp; I doubt if many founnd their way to America at the time. They were usually timepieces</p><p>No Vienna regulater type clock ever chimed. At most some had hour strike or grand sonnerie strike. A chime is at least 4 notes.</p><p>Typically they had seconds pendulums which meant they were&nbsp; at least 4 feet long overall, grander ones even larger.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The German clock makers started making cheaper versions, ranging from just a bit cheaper and rather fancier to very cheap and downright crude versions. They abandoned the seconds pendulum and went for a 3/4 second or shorter, although the 3/4 seconds one still retained the subsidiary seconds dial despite the fact that it went round in 45 seconds instead of a minute. Once again I doubt if many would have found their way to America as the market there had plenty of wall clocks of all descriptions locally made. My uncle in NJ had a very fine Vienna like clock, made if I rememeber correctly by E Howard of Boston.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the price range available I&#039;d expect pretty well anybody with a job could have had a wall clock, cheap or better as they could afford. They probably located them pretty much the same way anyone would nowadays, somewhere there was space and they looked goor or at least OK.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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