Art Deco Mantel Clock

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Overview

Arch Top Art Deco Mantel Clock made of wood with intricate carved designs on side and bottom. Raised on two full lengths of wood.
Wood Casing possibly Maple. Round tin Face with Black Numerals, three winding arbours encased in a tin hinged class door. It has a hinged back door that opens to reveal workings, pendulum, and winding key.
Silent Chime, 3 off winding arbours chime mechanism and pendulum

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2023.125

Item type

Themes

Material

Width

280 mm

Height or length

220 mm

Depth

140 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Inscribed on the brass movement there is a shield shaped insignia with a coronet along the top, a sash across the middle, scribe markings at the top left and bottom right below which reads CORONET. The 36 is inscribed on the left of the movement.

Engraved on sterling silver plaque;
Presented
to
Mr & Mrs Hobbs
By Friends
On
Their Departure from Marybook
STG SIL

Contextual Information

It is likely that this clock was presented to Mr and Mrs Albert John Hobbs around 1937 when they relocated from Marybrook to Perth and then later Harvey.
Albert John Hobbs married Florence Matilda Banbury in Busselton in 1911 and together they raised three children on their Quindalup farm. Albert served in the 28th Battalion in WW1 but was discharged in 1917 after being permanently incapacitated by a shrapnel wound. Despite his handicap and with the aid of his walking stick, he farmed at “Clydesdale” in Newtown during the 1920s and later at “Watermoor” in Marybrook during the 1930s (the Marybrook farm was named after Florence’s place of birth – Watermoor Road, Gloucestershire, England). Albert was a keen horticulturalist and judged at the Busselton Show for many years.
Albert and Florence left Marybrook and moved to Perth for a short time in 1937. At the start of WW2, they shifted to Harvey where they were active members of the local community, particularly with the RSL. Their youngest son was killed in action over Papua New Guinea during an RAAF night mission. Following Albert’s death in 1951, Florence returned to live in Perth and died in 1979 at the age of 94.

Sources:
Government Gazette of Western Australia, 28 October 1925, https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/gazettestore.nsf/FileURL/gg1925_048.pdf/$FILE/Gg1925_048.pdf?OpenElement, Accessed 8 December 2023
Harvey Murray Times, 9 November 1951, https://trove.nla.gov.au, Accessed 8 December 2023
Stafford-Gibb Family Tree, https://ancestry.com.au, Accessed 8 December 2023

Keywords

Florence Matilda Hobbs

Busselton Historical Society

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