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making of clock*.
The face of Jie Museum's dock.* is of brass, iron and pewter and is signed in die center of the plate| “Christian Forrer, Lampeter.” It is beautifully engraved with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for.the minutes and has cast rococo ornaments filling the spaces between the drcle of the clock face proper and the corners of the square open inn g. The hands, pierced at one end in a scroll design, reminiscent of. some of the handles of contemporary sugar tongs, taper delicately at die -opposite end to point out the hours and minutes. ,
The carved mahogany long-case was made by Jacob Bachman, also Swiss, who had settled in Lancaster Co. Ip spite of his Swiss Origin he was obviously influenced by contemporary English and American furniture design, especially that of Thomas Chippendale. This may be seen in the bold projections of the clock’s case, in the masculine strength of the broken swan’s neck pediment which surmounts the case,, : and in the urns with their carved flames at either corner and in the center of the pediment. Three of Christian Forrer’s sons moved to Virginia in 17%, settling . near Luray. One of his descend- -i ants. Dr. Samuel H. Forrer of Strasburg, gave this magnificant' example of his ancestor’s work to the Museum in 1955. ► * \ -
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