A clock integrated into a tennis-themed desk ink set, advertised on an antique oak base in the company’s 1890 catalog.
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Source: New Haven Clock Company; Whitney Library, New Haven Museum; reproduced in NRHP nomination; Figure 2; PDF page 25
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Clock Works, SGC-NC-009, NC-002, “The Tennis Ink Set, 1890.” Source: New Haven Clock Company; Whitney Library, New Haven Museum; reproduced in NRHP nomination; Figure 2; PDF page 25. https://web.archive.org/web/20180903082128/http://ct.gov/cct/lib/cct/New_Haven_Clock_NR_SRB_compressed.pdf#page=25. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.