Maker(s): | Currier, Jr, Edmund
| Culture: | American (1793-1853)
| Title: | tall case clock
| Date Made: | 1818-1825
| Type: | Furniture; Timekeeping Device
| Materials: | wood: cherry; white pine; base metal: brass, iron, steel, lead; glass
| Place Made: | United States; New Hampshire; Hopkinton
| Accession Number: | HD 2010.13
| Credit Line: | The Hutchins Family Clock, Gift of David Dawley
| Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description: Tall clock by Edmund Currier, Jr. (1793-1853) of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, which was owned by the Hutchins family of Bath, New Hampshire. This tall clock is one of only two known examples of Currier’s work before he left central New Hampshire for Salem, Massachusetts, in 1825 in hopes of better times after the economic ravages of Jefferson’s Embargo, the War of 1812, and the Depression of 1817. The Hutchins family was happy to patronize Currier and an unknown cabinetmaker who worked in Hanover, New Hampshire, since a fashionable clock illustrated their mercantile sucess in the upper Connecticut River Valley. family of Bath, New Hampshire, was happy to patronize Currier and an unknown cabinetmaker who worked in Hanover, New Hampshire, the seat of Dartmouth College, for a fashionable clock that illustrated their mercantile success in the upper Connecticut River Valley.
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