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Absolutely! A grandmother clock is a smaller, less expensive, usually less ornate version of a Grandfather's clock. In UK I believe it's a case clock.
There's an old song
"The Grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf/so it stood eighty years on the floor/ It was taller by half than the old man himself/ but it weighed not a pennyweight more" ....
there's a bit in there I forget....it ends with :
"...but it stopped /short/never to go again when the old man died."
Ah, sigh, sure and it brought a tear to the eye of an older, more sentimental generation.
I'm sure you'll get more on clocks from the TAGG. Aloha, wow
PS who wants to hazard a guess on TAGG ...my try at a new acronym. Aloha wow
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