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Antique American Clocks January 2020 Sealed bid auction This is a blind, or sealed-bid auction. You submit a bid sheet with the How does this work? maximum price you wish to pay for an item by the close of the auc- tion (January 31). If you are the high bidder you win the item! You will be notified if you have won the item at the close of the auction and will have 15 business days to make payment by check or credit card through PayPal. Extended payment plans are available. See the Detailed Instructions for more information. There is a 10% buy- er's premium on all sales. Who can I contact Todd Porter, 2400 Shady Oak Pl., Lexington, KY 40515 with questions? (859) 312-9012 email: [email protected] Website: AntiqueAmericanClocks.com Antique American Clocks – January 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures 1. $1100 old stand of Eli Terry & Co.” in Terrysville CT. Is this just another OG? J. Ives “New Hampshire Mirror Clock”, 1818-1825. A Well, not entirely. This OG is 33 inches high and 19 inches across, the large (57-inch) clock with an Ives steel-plate, roller- largest size OG made. It uses an 8-day wooden movement with pinion movement with brass bushings and a long- compounded 12-lb weights to drive the movement drop pendulum with the bob visible through the for the full period. I cannot find another Welton 8- bottom glass. The middle glass was always a mir- day wooden movement in the Antique Clocks Price ror (here an old replacement), and the top glass Guide (30-hour wooden works OGs are not uncom- with a reverse painting around the dial. I believe mon from these two), and frankly, I can’t recall ever both reverse paintings here are old replacements, seeing another 8-day wooden works OG. (I’m sure well done in a proper style, and never removed I’ll hear from many of you now about how common from the door frame; it’s possible that they are they are!) I called in a crane and hung the weights touch-ups to the original paintings. The heavy iron and the clock ran and struck for the short period it dial is original and in need of repainting, or at least was tested. Note the beautiful flame mahogany on touch-up. The hands are original. The mahogany the case. The dial glass and mirror are replace- veneer is darn good with just a couple of chips and an old finish; the ments, the wooden dial and hands clean and presumably original. corbels on either side of the dial glass are veneered in bird’s eye There are flat tin dust covers on top; the weights are modern re- maple and need to be cleaned to bring out the contrast with the placements. $200-$400. mahogany veneer. The urn finials on top look good but are wood- en, and the scroll tips have been broken and re-veneered. The Ives 4. $3500 8-day, time-and-strike movement is running and keeping time, driv- Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 3 Vienna”, ca. 1880. A 52-inch wal- en by two 9-lb weights; the strike rack-and-snail movement needs nut case in excellent condition. The base appears to adjustment to get it to count the hours properly. The interior of the be an old replacement, as may be the finials; the crest case is washed in blue paint with a floral (?) pattern in lighter green; is probably original. The full-length dial board is the I can’t figure out how it was done, but ’I m pretty sure it is original. later version (after 1886) with an incised pattern in The interior of these cases often was painted or wallpapered. I gold on a relacquered black board (rather than a fret- think these are beautiful clocks and it is hard to find ones in present- work screen). This model contains a 30-day double- able condition like this. You still see the better ones selling for up to wind movement made by Welch for the Ithaca Calen- $2000. Ly, American Clocks Vol. 3, pp. 110-117. $1200-$2000. dar Clock Co. as shown on page 130 of Ly’s Calendar Clocks. The calendar movement is also period/ 2. $1200 original; the pendulum stick has been broken and J. Ives “New Hampshire Mirror Clock”, 1818-1825. A diminutive ver- repaired twice and the bob seems like a replacement. sion of the Ives “Looking Glass Clock”, shorter and narrower than Both paper dials are replacements, as are the roller the full-size version at 52.5 inches high and 17.5 inches wide (see the covers. The hands are old. The clock is running, keep- side-by-side photo with #1). The dial diameter is also an inch smaller ing time, and the calendar is advancing, although the (5.5 inches vs 6.5 inches). Perhaps the most important difference weekday roller slips and should be glued down. No between the two clocks is that this clock has a short-drop Ives label, but an ICCCo key is included. Recent sales range from $2100 movement (note the pendulum window at the bottom of the upper to $3800. glass), rather than at the bottom of the case. This model is less common than the long-drop version, 5. $335 but there are a few examples in the Antique L.F. & W. Carter Italian-type shelf calendar, 1863- Clocks Price Guide. The reeded pilaster case is 1868. This model is not shown in Ly’s book Calen- maple I think, possibly cherry; it is not veneered dar Clocks but can be found in Miller and Miller’s except for the scroll top, which is mahogany and Survey of American Clocks: Calendar Clocks on page curly maple; the sides appear to be pine. I don’t 64. This model is not at all common; I can find no see any evidence that the case was ever ve- examples in the Antique Clocks Price Guide (out of neered. The left scroll tip has been repaired. 48 Carter clocks). The Italian-style case is 17.5 inch- Both reverse-painted glasses are new and un- es tall with a beautifully polished rosewood finish signed, the mirror is old, possibly a resilvered orig- and ebony columns on either side. The rounded inal. The heavy iron dial is original, probably re- trim around the top and the calendar door bezel painted long ago, and now touched up in places. are both in a lighter-color wood. The bezel for the time and day dial The hands are replacements; the old brass urn is brass and is as shown in the Millers’ book; the time dial is old pa- finials are probably not original but look fine. The per in good condition, the calendar dial even better. The hands are Ives steel plate 8-day movement is running and period and may be original. The 8-day movement is unsigned, it is keeping time, driven by two flat lead weights that may not be origi- running, keeping time, and striking on a wire gong. The calendar is nal. An arm is broken off the strike count mechanism (compare the advancing. There are nice labels inside and on the back of the calen- movement photo with #1); the strike chain works but not properly. dar door. This is as nice an example as you are likely I ran it without hanging the strike weight. This clock was owned to find of this rare model. $350-$600. and being restored by Herschel Burt but has been in storage since 1978 (see photo). Burt was a noted clock collector in the last centu- 6. $120 ry. $1200-$1800. Seth Thomas long-drop octagon clock, 1888. The 31- inch oak case would appear to be the same as used 3. $200 for the early Globe models, but it holds an 8-day, H. Welton & Co. 8-day wooden works OG, 1840-1842. H. Welton & time-only movement (ST No. 41) with a front- Co. consisted of brothers Hiram and Heman, who worked “at the mounted pendulum. Note that the pendulum bob is 2 Antique American Clocks – January 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures suspended on a wire rather than on a rear-mounted pendulum stick. the back of the clock. It came in two models, one with the pendu- I would assume that this is a less expensive option than the Globe, lum hung in front of the movement, and a second where the pendu- but it is not shown in Ly’s books on Seth Thomas clocks; I cannot lum is suspended from the steel bracket that supports the move- find an example in the Antique Clocks Price Guide either. There is ment, as found here. The signed movement has two thick steel no evidence that the movement is not original to the case (e.g., plates with a Graham dead-beat escapement. The dial is enamel on additional screw holes). The dial pan is new, as are the hands; the zinc, 12 inches in diameter and shows very little wear. The hands are old glass in the bezel was replaced some time ago, the lower glass is original. The pendulum stick has lost its gilding, the large brass bob newer as well. The pendulum bob is not Seth Thomas issue. There is damascened with some corrosion. It’s a beautiful clock and a is a black Seth Thomas label inside (not visible in the photo as it is practically perfect timekeeper.