Among the various products available from the Girotti Sculptured Art company in St. Catharines, Ontario in the 1960s and 1970s were many models of 3D battery-operated wall clocks.

Below are pictures of some of their wall clocks.  Almost twenty examples are now in the museum's Girotti products collection at June 2026.  Some of them were shown in the company's 1971 catalogue, but many were not.  Their fan-shaped wall clocks apparently date to the 1960s.  The large wood panel models with bolted on 3D chalkware (plaster of Paris) designs AND many large molded polymer foam models both date to the 1970s.

The large wood panel clock with a chalkware old ship with its billowing sails was purchased from a person whose parents acquired the clock when new.  This model was not included in the company's 1971 catalogue.  The donated CONESTOGA foam model had been purchased by the donor's mother for her ill husband around 1971.

Note the use of brass bars hour markers on the dials of the fan-shaped and wooden panel models.

The date of manufacture was often molded into the chalkware components on the wood panel clocks and into the side of the molded polymer cases.  See the pictures for examples.

For the fan-shaped style (none in the 1971 catalogue, so likely 1960s models), three different metal rod frame designs are known.  The museum has two frame examples that are shown below.  Various combinations of thick walnut wood dials and rays could be used to create different models.

The many 1970s molded-polymer case clocks had round metal dials.  The same script font word Girotti is found on the dials of both the wood and metal dials.

Both horizontal and vertical styles of wood panel and molded foam models were available.

Round Girotti Sculptured Art labels are found on the back of all clocks.  On the wood panel models one or more labels cover the drilled holes in the panel where the nuts are installed in the back on the small bolts that hold the heavy molded chalkware piece(s) in place. 

The same company label (picture below) is also found on the back of Girotti non-clock chalkware wall plaques and wooden panels, and on the chalkware statues.

Page 17 of the 1971 Girotti Sculptured Art catalogue shows four different models of horizontal wood panel clock with 3D molded chalkware components (we have one of them, the COLONIAL GARDEN model, BL-204, in our collection) and eleven models of molded polymer wall clocks.

Our Spanish GALLEON molded polymer model (catalogue number B-15, 1969 date on case) was included on page 18 and the BARBOQUE model (B-10) on page 16.  Our two examples have two different mold dates on their cases, 1974 on the copper-coloured version but 1968 on the dull gold version.

Note the attractive (or not?) PENDULUM (B-7, 1968 date on case, 30" high) and the BRANCH (B-9, 1968 date on dark brown case, 18" high) polymer models that were also in the 1971 catalogue, on page 16.  The model name of one molded polymer example in the collection (B-31, 1974 date on case) is currently unknown.  See the pictures below.

There were many other company products that included molded chalkware pedestals, statues, picture and mirror frames, and wall plaques with molded designs.

Our museum thanks Aaron Tisdelle, a grandson of company co-founder Marino Girotti, for the loan of his 1971 company catalogue so that we could scan the pages.

The scans of the covers plus the three pages with clocks from the 1971 Girotti catalogue are included below.

See the Fisherman model - found online in Ontario late in 2023.  It has a flashlight battery movement.  The date on the bottom of the molded polymer case is 1974.  It was not shown in the 1971 catalogue.

Pictures were added in June 2026 for the CONESTOGA and RAM polymer foam models (both in the 1971 catalogue).  Also added were two unknown later 1970s, chalkware/wood panel models: 'two ducks' (horizontal), and 'two musicians' (vertical).

Our museum continues to look for new examples of Girotti wall clocks.