The Maryland Court of Appeals has returned a 150-year-old clock to its courtroom more than 50 years after it was removed.
The Victorian clock was unveiled Thursday in a ceremony that included Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert Bell, Maryland Commission on Artistic Property Chairman Matthew Lalumia and Maryland State Archivist Edward Papenfuse.
Made between 1840 and 1860, the clock hung in the Court of Appeals’ courtroom in the Maryland State House from the late 1800s until 1903 when it was moved to the new Court of Appeals Building just next door. In the mid 1960s, the late Judge William Horney gave the clock to now-retired Judge John Sause, who donated it in 2010 to the Maryland State Archives’ Commission on Artistic Property.
