Stretch : America's first family of clockmakers /
Fennimore, Donald L.,
Stretch : America's first family of clockmakers / Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III. - 2013, 1st edition - 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
"A Winterthur book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-336) and index.
This volume presents the definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. Initial essays discuss the family and the importance of their Quaker beliefs; time-telling and the clock making community in pre-1750 Philadelphia; innovative mechanical advances made by the Stretches; and their notable civic and cultural contributions to the city. The catalog section of the book features 84 of the 133 Peter, Thomas, and William Stretch clocks discovered during the course of the project, illustrating and fully describing both the cases and the works. The majority of the clocks, passed down through the generations and still in private collections, are being published for the first time.
9780912724706 0912724706
Antique Collectors Club Ltd, Oreil Customer Service Dept C/O Natl Book Network 15200 Nbn Way Bldg B Po Box 190, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, USA, 17214-0190 SAN 630-0065
2012027925
Stretch family.
Stretch, Peter, 1670-1746 --Family.
Stretch family--Catalogs.
Stretch, Peter, 1670-1746 --Catalogues raisonnés.
Stretch family.
Stretch, Peter, 1670-1746.
1700-1799
Clock and watch makers--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Clocks and watches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Catalogs.
Clock and watch makers.
Clocks and watches.
Families.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Floor clock USA Stretch Philadelphia Highgrade clock History
Catalogs.
Catalogs.
Catalogues raisonnés.
History.
Stretch : America's first family of clockmakers / Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III. - 2013, 1st edition - 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm.
"A Winterthur book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-336) and index.
This volume presents the definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. Initial essays discuss the family and the importance of their Quaker beliefs; time-telling and the clock making community in pre-1750 Philadelphia; innovative mechanical advances made by the Stretches; and their notable civic and cultural contributions to the city. The catalog section of the book features 84 of the 133 Peter, Thomas, and William Stretch clocks discovered during the course of the project, illustrating and fully describing both the cases and the works. The majority of the clocks, passed down through the generations and still in private collections, are being published for the first time.
9780912724706 0912724706
Antique Collectors Club Ltd, Oreil Customer Service Dept C/O Natl Book Network 15200 Nbn Way Bldg B Po Box 190, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, USA, 17214-0190 SAN 630-0065
2012027925
Stretch family.
Stretch, Peter, 1670-1746 --Family.
Stretch family--Catalogs.
Stretch, Peter, 1670-1746 --Catalogues raisonnés.
Stretch family.
Stretch, Peter, 1670-1746.
1700-1799
Clock and watch makers--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.
Clocks and watches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Catalogs.
Clock and watch makers.
Clocks and watches.
Families.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Floor clock USA Stretch Philadelphia Highgrade clock History
Catalogs.
Catalogs.
Catalogues raisonnés.
History.