After a very good nights sleep, I drove to OSV in MA about 70 miles away. This is a very good living museum which has moved various old houses and workshops from all over the area. There is an excellent wood mill and a blacksmiths shop as well as tin smiths and other craft places. The shops are all staffed and the staff seem good and knowledgeable.
I was particularly interested in the clock collection and I was not disappointed, this is a first rate collection with some very good examples of early clocks with wood movement. During my visit I became very taken with a particular clock which has a very old unnamed wood wheeled movement in a most interesting case. The case and the movement may not be original to each other but both were very thought provoking. There was also a very interesting tall case clock with a reverse painted dial, the clock is unsigned but looking at the movement with the roller trunnions, one has to think this was an Ives movement.
There was a very nice 'wag on the wall' timepiece clock which was single handed hoop and spike iron posted frame with brass verticals the dial was simple and immediately reminded me of the quaker clocks while the dial did not really have any North Oxford Quaker marking there was something about the clock which was very attractive.
I was very lucky to be accompanied on my visit to the clock gallery by one of the curators who had been with the OSV for over 25 years he was able to get me a complementary ticket for the rest of the museum, which was kind.
We were able to take off some of the hood of the clocks in the USA some people call them bonnets and look in detail at the movements, which was excellent.
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