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Christopher Columbus Table Clock
ca. 1892
E. N. Welch Manufacturing Company (1864-1903)
USA: Connecticut, Bristol
Silver plate (likely); enamel; glass
overall: 4 x 2 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.; 10.16 x 6.985 x 3.175 cm
Gift of Mrs. Willis R. Michael
75.66.7

Christopher Columbus Table Clock; case: silver plated (?); platform movement; white face reads "WELCH"; reverse has a scene of the "LANDING OF COLUMBUS IN AMERICA/ OCTOBER 12th 1492".


The Welch Clock Company made this souvenir item, sometimes called a clock-watch because it takes the shape of a watch but is closer to the size of a clock, in celebration of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. It sold for about a dollar. The exposition celebrated Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World 400 years earlier. Millions of visitors attended the fair and brought home a variety of mementos decorated with scenes related to the explorer.



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