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Sir Christopher figurative clock, 1890

New Haven Clock Company

The Sir Christopher model from New Haven Clock Company’s 1890 catalog places an ornate timepiece beside a seated historical figure.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States. Underlying work published before 1931; supplied asset is a faithful scan or reproduction of the historical two-dimensional work. Embedded period illustration extracted from the PDF.

Source: New Haven Clock Company; Whitney Library, New Haven Museum; reproduced in NRHP nomination; Figure 4; PDF page 27

Sir Christopher figurative clock, 1890
New Haven Clock Company; Whitney Library, New Haven Museum; reproduced in NRHP nomination; Figure 4; PDF page 27. 1890. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Clock Works, SGC-NC-009, NC-004, “Sir Christopher figurative clock, 1890.” Source: New Haven Clock Company; Whitney Library, New Haven Museum; reproduced in NRHP nomination; Figure 4; PDF page 27. https://web.archive.org/web/20180903082128/http://ct.gov/cct/lib/cct/New_Haven_Clock_NR_SRB_compressed.pdf#page=27. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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