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NV - Winnemucca,Humboldt County - c1920 - Railroad Clock, Large

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
NV - Winnemucca,Humboldt County - c1920 - Railroad Clock, Large
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Large railroad clock in light-colored wooden case, measures 20 1/2" W x 20 1/2"H x 6 1/2"D. White clock face with black numerals, with face measuring 14" across. Produced by "Self Winding Clock Co./New York." Two large metal clasps are attached to the top right of the case. Included are 2 eveready EA68F 1.5V Union Carbide batteries, which indicate the clock probably dates to c1920. The American Ever Ready Company became part of National Carbon Company in 1914,the name was shortened to Eveready, and in 1917 National Carbon Company merged with Union Carbide to form The Union Carbide and Carbon Company.

“This company was formed in 1886 by Charles Pratt with Henry Chester Pond. The design was based on automatically winding the clock each hour with a motor powered by two 1-1/2 volt dry cells located in the case. The advantage of this high-quality, pendulum-controlled movement, combined with the constant driving force of the small, frequently wound mainspring, was that it yielded a highly accurate clock subject to minimal wear. An optional attachment allowed the clocks to be synchronized by hourly U.S. Naval Observatory time signals sent over Western Union telegraph lines. The railroads needed to coordinate among their stations (and among each other lest two trains sharing a stretch of track shared it too closely). In 1883, the Naval Observatory agreed to telegraph standard railway time, a great boon for Western Union, which happened to own the Self-Winding Clock Company. These clocks were common in ...and could be seen in all Western Union telegraph offices” [Ref: duetime.wordpress.com] Historically, Winnemucca was a station on the Transcontinental Railroad, and stands at the half-way point between Salt Lake City and San Francisco.