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Title: Reference Book of Ithaca Calendar Clocks
Description: Ithaca, NY: Unknown, 1965. Reprint. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; 3 1/2 x 7 1/2; 64 pages; Soft cover is stapled wraps. Slight rubbing, scuffing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w pictures. Undated, maybe 1960-1970? Reprint of an 1880[? ] catalogue. 'Founded with very little initial capital in 1865, the Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. Initially focused on manufacturing a clock to the specifications of a patents granted to Henry B. Horton on April 18, 1865 and August 28, 1866. It remained in business until March 14, 1917, during World War I, at which time its assets were sold at a public bankruptcy auction...Henry Horton patented some iron-front cases in 1866, which were among the first manufactured by Ithaca. The iron was cast at a local foundry in Ithaca, NY. The company used clock movements from E. N. Welch, Pomeroy, and Laporte Hubbell previous to 1890. Ithaca made the calendar movements, assembled them with the clock movements and marketed their product from the New York location. It is reported that, based on a patented test mechanism created by Henry Horton and Merritt Wood and patented on July 11, 1867, that as many as 108 clocks could be tested in a single day! '. Near Fine .

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