The Frederick Towne Proctor collection of antique watches and table clocks.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Utica, N.Y. : [Munson-Proctor-Williams Institute?], 1913Edition: [First edition]Description: iv, 38 plates : chiefly illustrations ; 28 x 35 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7483.F74 F74 1913 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000036554

[The collection was permanently loaned by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute to the Smithsonian Institution in 1959.].

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Comprehensive, contemporary (1913) catalog of the Pocketwatch (and some table clocks) collection assembled by F.T. Proctor at the dawn of the 20th century in upstate New York. Never issued as a a bound book. Only privately bound copies exist. No author or pulisher stated. No page numbers. Consists of: Title page, 3 page introduction, plus 28 (unnumbered) plates on heavy coated stock each showing between one and 6 timepieces (a total of 121 pieces), with one sheet of descriptive text for each plate. The timepieces are consecutively numbered 1 to 121 allowing the plates to be ordered correctly. Worldcat lists 9 copies in major research libraries.

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