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Timby Walnut "Solar Timepiece" or Globe Clock, Saratoga Springs, New York, No. 369, c. 1865, the scroll-top case with central turned finial and gilt pendant, printed paper Arabic numeral hour dial encircling the 6-in. twelve-gore printed globe marked on the maker's boss Joslin's Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the Latest Discoveries, Gillman Joslin, Boston 1860 , in a brass yoke with North Pole facing front, lower printed paper minute dial with Arabic numerals behind a hinged and glazed door, eight-day time-only movement with balance wheel escapement, interior maker's label numbered 369 , ht. 26 1/2 in. Note: The annual report of the American Institute, New York City, 1867-68, describes the Timby timepiece as "a miniature world or model of the earth, put in motion, making a revolution once in twenty-four hours, moved by a superior time movement, requiring to be wound once in eight days..." See An Empire in Time, Clocks and Clock Makers of Upstate New York , by G. Russell Oechsle and Helen Boyce, pp. 136-138.


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