Art Deco Art Deco Skyscraper Solid Silver Cased Easel Desk Clock, C1932

For your consideration is this wonderful Art Deco Art Deco skyscraper Solid Silver Cased Easel Desk Clock with a French Movement. A stunning clock in excellent working condition having been recently and professionally serviced. Wonderful Deco stretched numerals and stepped casing and if that wasn't enough it comes with a beautiful piece of history and engraving to the case. The solid silver mount is made by Henry Matthews in 1930 . It's engraved to the top with "Presented to the Hon. Mrs I.J. Pitman" and on the bottom with "By the students of the Walsall Commercial College, 30th November 1932"

As with all our clocks it's been fully serviced and so comes to you in good working order. The condition is above average on the dial, so often these silvered dials are heavily scratched, this one shows minimal aging, you couldn't wish for better considering it's 90 odd years. The case is bright and generally in very good condition.

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Biography

Mrs Pitman was married to Isaac James Pitman, there is more information on him below.

Provenance and History of Sir Isaac James Pitman

Sir Isaac James Pitman, KBE (14 August 1901 – 1 September 1985) was a British businessman, civil servant, publisher, politician and spelling reformer.

Sir James was vitally concerned with the teaching of children to write the English language. His analysis of the teaching of handwriting to students, both in school by professional teachers, and at home by parents has several strong pedagogical theories in its intellectual background. Along with his analysis Pitman created a system of spelling that allows students to spell as words are pronounced (according to an alternative orthography for an English-language teaching alphabet). His major work on this topic is Alphabets and Reading: The Initial Teaching Alphabet (1965).

Pitman was the son of Ernest Pitman and grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand. James Pitman was to become chairman and joint managing director of the Pitman Press and Pitman Publishing.

Pitman was educated at Summer Fields School, Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He excelled in athletics, won the Public Schools middleweight boxing championship of 1919 and gained his 'blue' at Oxford University in rugby union which he also played for England against Scotland.

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