I recently acquired this B&O Locomotive clock. What makes it more unique is the documentation and history I also received.

I am not sure if this clock is valuable, but I would like to see it on display where more than myself would see it. I am posting all the pictures and other documentation in my picture file.

Can anyone tell me more about it? Also, is anyone interested in trading for it? I am interested in acquiring a RR grade watch.

If I am out of line asking this sort of question in this forum, please let me know.

Hi Ken

I honestly don't know anything about your clock but I would be interested in a trade. Maybe someone can give us an idea of the value but I don't have anything like that & would like too.

Tom

Ken, what a great looking clock and I'm sure that you won't have any trouble making a trade....and to answer your question, you are not out of line in asking the question regarding making a trade....

You may want to consider placing the clock in our Members Only Watch & Clock Auction once the research has been completed....It will be interesting to see the complete picture & documentation package you have yet to post....

Thanks for showing your clock to us it is a very interesting piece....

Regards,
Jerry

I'll just go ahead and post the remainder of my pictures and documentation on this clock without further comments.

Side view with balance wheel

Back Plate

Clock Smith information. Tip City is in Ohio.

Here is the locomotive that housed the clock.

The ST catalog front page.

The clock listing in the ST catalog

Here is the note that came with the clock.

This is a picture of "Snody" Robert Snodgrass, to whom the clock was presented.

Letter from the B&O Railroad.

Ken is it still available?

Tom

Ken that is a very nice Seth Thomas and History package you have and one that I think would be very valuable....

You won't have any trouble making a trade for a RR grade watch depending on the watch you are looking for....

Thanks for posting all the history you have of the clock, it is very interesting indeed....

Good Luck with it and I hope you find what you are looking for....

Regards,
Jerry

The inscription on the bezel reads:

Presented by D O Mock to Snody

That ties in the information in the letter to the picture, and how the history of the clock came together.

Sorry I missed that detail.

That is a beautiful clock. If it were me, I would keep it and spend a few hundred for a RR grade watch. I think your clock is worth a lot more than a RR grade watch. If you don't want to keep it, I think you would be better off selling the clock and buying yourself a nice RR watch. You'd probably have $$$ left over. Just my opinion.

That's my thoughts too, Roger.... Take it on the Antique Road Show and let them appraise it, bet it would go for..well it would be surprising with all the documentation to go along with it....a far sight more than a nice RR watch....

Just my opinion and I am no expert....

Regards,
Jerry

Have you thought about contacting the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore?

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum

They have several locomotives that would have been in service around the turn of the century that this clock might be an appropriate addition to.

Paul Kattner

I contacted them sometime ago, but they want me to donate the clock and associated documentation. If I were a wealthy person, I would more in likely be happy to do that. But being a poor Clocksmith, that just doesn't work. :-)