MM - Fastener (18th Century Cotter Pin)

This tapered cotter pin arrangement fastens the single hand of my chamber clock to the main drive shaft. The dial behind the hand is used to set the alarm time by aligning it with the short spike on the hand. The clock was made in Halesworth, Suffolk in the early 1700s and may well have been in my family for the whole of its life. If only it could talk!

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