I had a very good nights sleep and a good drive 25 miles to the American Watch and Clock Museum near Bristol CT, As it was Sunday, traffic was very light and it was a joy to drive on nearly empty roads.
This is a very good museum and I enjoyed a very nice wander around before I met one of the curators who showed me around. He was able to point out things in much more detail, and also let me see the reserve collection of wooden clock movements. There were some very interesting wooden tower clock movements which I found very interesting. They tend to date from about 1820 so do not predate the wood wheeled movements found in tall and shelf clocks.
We spend some time discussing the manufacture and painting of a dial and considered where the materials which went in to dial painting originated. When you consider a painted dial in some detail there are a large number of elements to it. From the dial paint ground right through to the materials needed for colours and gesso. All of these things needed to be sourced, and very few records remain, or have been so far found, that give any indication from where they came.
Nice drive back to air b and b
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