page 31 -- Mrs. C.A. Richards, Stephen Engle Clock, E.F. Judson, John Paret & Co.

updated 1 October 2018

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Another card for Mrs. C.A. Richards Millinery is on page 94 of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection.

The National Watch and Clock Museum is the home of the Engle Clock as of 2017. They have an extensive selection of clocks in addition to the Engle. Take the Museum's virtual tour via Google Street View "See Inside" cameras. From your starting point, the tour route is up to you.

Photo of the clock from the starting point of your tour.

Your tour begins from the point shown above.

See the YouTube demonstration of the Engle Clock below:

Stephen Engle Clock

demo from YouTube

In 2017, the Engle Clock is at the 

National Watch & Clock Museum

514 Poplar Street
Columbia, PA 17512
Phone: 717-684-8261
Google Street View captures the Museum in Aug 2011:

Those interested in Victorian and other historical clocks will be interested in viewing the 1939 catalog listing for the famous Mitchell Inn Collection, formerly housed in the Mitchell Inn in Middletown NY:  http://bit.ly/MitchellInnClockCollectionCatalog

Another E.F. Judson card is on page 54 of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection.

In a biographical sketch of John Holmes Butler, a hint of the fate of  John Paret & Co. (Google Books):

Title	Tales of Our Kinsfolk, Past and Present: The Story of Our Butler Ancestors ... from 1602 to 1919
Author	Henry Langdon Butler
Published	1919
Original from	the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized	Jan 10, 2011
Length	509 pages, p369

An ad for John Paret & Co. from the Wheelman (Google Books):

Title	The Wheelman, Volume 2, p.401
Published	1883
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	Jan 25, 2008

The remaining cards on this page are most likely "die cuts" used for the purpose of scrapbook decoration:

A Google search for Victorian die cuts yields a number of colorful examples:

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