Name/Title
clock, tall caseEntry/Object ID
2003.003.001Description
Clock, tall case. Made in Maryland, c.1920. A: case; chamfered waist with applied block decorations at top and bottom of corners; inverted teardrop inlay around keyhole. Applied crown molding and 4-band horizontal reed molding around top (just below junction with hood); single panel in front of base. Attached feet. Back constructed of a single board with sound hole near top. 90.5"h x 18.5"w x 10"d. B: hood; solid sides; columns at front the rear corners; arched door with clear glass; broken neck pediment with rosettes. Curve on pediment is obviously hand-carved. 31"h x 19.5"w x 10.5"d. C: works; painted iron face; pink flowers at corners; Roman numerals on time dial; 3 hands; painted moon dial; scale above moon dial calibrated from one to 29 1/2 in Arabic numerals. Signed "Jacob Wolf Westminster" on face, just above hands. D: pendulum. E, F: cast iron weights. G: key. H: crank. I, J: pair of brass finials, sphere with spire, added to clock much later. Overall size 94.5" x 19.5" x 10.5".Acquisition
Accession
2003.003Source or Donor
Alban, Theodore F.Acquisition Method
GiftGeneral Notes
Note
Belonged to the donor's grandparents, Theodore "Bud" and Angela Boylan Shaeffer; was in their house at 32 Westmoreland St., Westminster since the 1920s. Jacob Wolf was appears in Franklin City, PA in 1790, listed as a silver/clockmaker. In 1797, he is in Waynesborough, PA. The Engine of Liberty contains an advertisement for Wolf in 1818, as a clockmaker in Uniontown. He appears to have been in Westminster around 1820. He returns to Waynesborough; advertisements for his estate sale in April 1864 include "watch and clockmaking tools." He also had a son named Jacob and some later clocks attributed to the father may have been made by the son. Scharf's History of Western Maryland, p. 929. Dan Hartzler, Maryland Clockmakers, p. 102.