Westclox 1948 Big Ben Brown Bakelite Electric Plain Alarm Clock
Description: Big Ben electric alarm clock in brown Bakelite® case. Non-luminous dial. At first, the dial was beige on the outside and off-white in the center. The colors were reversed about November 1948.
History Examples with first dial type (beige outside and off-white center): 2-48.
Examples with the second dial type (off-white outside and beige center): 11-48 (2 examples) and 9-51.
References
Price Change Book from the Westclox Factory - Bill Stoddard's Brief Summary
Westclox - An Identification and Price Guide Research by Richard Tjarks, Jeff Wood, Gary Biolchini, Greg Adams and Bill Stoddard
Documents Showing the Westclox 1948 Big Ben Brown Bakelite Electric Plain Alarm Clock:
Pictures of the Westclox 1948 Big Ben Brown Bakelite Electric Plain Alarm Clock:
Example dated 2-48 (February 1948). This is the first dial type (beige on the outside and off-white in the center).
Example dated 9-51 (September 1951). This is the second dial type (off-white outside and beige center).
This item is shown for the historical record, it is not for sale.
