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GILBERT ROHDE (1894-1944)

AN ELM BURL AND CHROMED-METAL 'WORLD'S FAIR' TABLE CLOCK, CIRCA 1933

Closed8 December 2009

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GILBERT ROHDE (1894-1944)
An Elm Burl and Chromed-Metal 'World's Fair' Table Clock, circa 1933
manufactured by Herman Miller Clock Co., Zeeland, Michigan
6 7/8 in. (17.7 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide, 2 5/8 in. (7 cm.) deep
the clock face marked Herman (HM) Miller and the reverse impressed 4082B and with metal plaque 1934 World's Fair Clocks

Specialist note

cf. R. Wilson et al., The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941, exhibition catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1986, p. 320, ill. 8.70.