Who Is This?

[stuey]

I came across this pendulum the other day, and I'm wondering if anyone on here has any idea who this man could be?
http://i63.tinypic.com/280i0c0.jpg

[gingejbee]

Somebody from the Swinging Sixties? 1860's of course.
It might help if you had a bit of history of the pendulum...date and country for starters.

[murraymints]

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=president%20lincoln


?????

[gingejbee]

^^^Abe Lincoln was my initial thought - but the beard style doesn't fit.

[stuey]

That's absolutely all I have to go on: No clock movement; no case; nothing. For some reason I'm thinking he's European rather than American. A composer, politician, writer from the 19th century?

[mazie]

Put the image in https://tineye.com stuey. It might come up with something

[Mamyalynne]

I've tried it through Tineye and Google Images, so far nothing.

[cleodog]

Pendant?

[stuey]

Thanks, mazie and mammy for doing that. It's a pendulum from an old clock. cleodog.

[murraymints]

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists/alexandergrahambell.html

???

[jno]

might be Paul Kruger if it's got a South Affrican connection

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Kruger_old_age.jpg/220px-Kruger_old_age.jpg

[Mamyalynne]

It could equally be the person who commissioned the clock or the clockmaker himself.

[woofgang]

He has quite an Amish beard....could the clock have been american?

[murraymints]

IT'S SANTA !!

[atalanta]

He looks like the founder of a religion or sect. But he doesn't seem to be Joseph Smith ( mormons)

[wolf63]

Can you take the pic from another angle to make the man clearer. Google may be able to work out who he is on a reverse search - like what mamy did.

[stuey]

I don't actually have the pendulum. I took this one photo of it when I saw it. In the 19th Century, the major European clock makers were in Germany and France, so I think the man is probably from one of those countries. The style of the suspension rod at the top of the pendulum doesn't look American to me.

[dannyk13]

John Brown(abolitionist) ?
http://www.history.com/topics/john-brown

[shaneystar2]

Definitely Kruger as Jno says. Look at images of a Kruger Rand.

[dannyk13]

Definitely Kruger:-
http://www.monex.com/prods/gold_krug.html

[stuey]

That's him...You got it! When I looked at JNO's picture from yesterday, I didn't think so; however, Dannyk's more or less proves it. Thanks to all of you.