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Postal telegraph electric wall clock.
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The face reads postal telegraph synchonous electric time and beneath the bottom numbers postal s1 15 manufactured in u s a.
The face measures 15 inches in diameter and diameter from edge to edge is 20 inches.
Make offer vintage hammond industrial school electric wall clock glass face works whitehall hammond synchronous movement 1920s art deco green onyx mantel clock 169 95.
Made in usa by hammond clock company.
These movements were so badly built that hammongd smashed them and replace the bihronous movement type the bad one with the erlier one that are repairable.
I must have the old motor.
Vintage postal telegraph synchronous electric.
1930s antique large hammond clock company postal telegraph synchronous electric time wall clock.
The hammond postal telegraph bichronous clock.
The clock weighs a hefty 16 pounds.
These clocks were made in the 30 s and were a great clock at that time and still maintain value when of the bichronous was made to run for 15 min with no electricty so as to keep time and self restart.
In the early 1930 s the company was hanging on by a shoestring.
They managed to get a big contract from postal telegraph to supply all their offices with electric clocks.
Vintage hammond postal telegraph type postal 15 20 electric wall clock workin.
Sx15 postal telegraph s were mostly made with a movement that did not have a motor and used a coil to generate an eletro magnetic field that would drive an internal disk.
Postal telegraph s with a hammond clock motor rebuilding these motors cost 150 00 plus 15 00 priority mail canada is 40 00 and has a 2 year warranty which brings your total cost to 165 00.
This auction features a large postal clock.
These clocks were made by the hammond clock company.