Photos courtesy of Kendra Gravelle and the Narragansett Times.

A nice article on our recent restoration of the South Kingstown town hall tower clock dials.

The three 4' diameter town hall Howard tower clock dials have deteriorated, and we've been contracted to restore them.

The three 4' diameter town hall Howard tower clock dials have deteriorated, and we've been contracted to restore them.

The three 4' diameter town hall Howard tower clock dials have deteriorated, and we've been contracted to restore them.

Doug getting a posed hernia. My worker's comp rate is about to go up.

A nice story regarding the Howard #89 regulator that I restored for Brown University's Ladd Observatory a couple of years ago.

Electrically wound master clock by International Time Recording, which later became International Business Machines. IBM made a bit of a splash in the computing field a few years after this clock was made.

First coat of black paint on the dial components and hands.

New hands and dial boards, in primer.

The three 4' diameter town hall Howard tower clock dials have deteriorated, and we've been contracted to restore them.

An interesting discovery- I have a brass 8 day tall case movement in for restoration, and the clients believed it was a Simon Willard, though the dial is unsigned. I disabused them of that idea, and presumed it was a nice, but generic American tall case clock, in a good cherry case with French feet. While restoring the movement I found evidence that it was made by Josiah Gooding, a well known maker from Bristol, Rhode Island, which is where I grew up. There are few clocks known by Mr. Gooding. The first inkling was a signature scratched into one end of the time side winding drum, as shown in the picture. Later, when assembling the movement, I noticed the die-stamped initials "JG" in the bell hammer, sort of a "smoking hammer", confirming the attribution of the clock.