Antique American Clocks

July 2020

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1. $2500 clock remains the property of the Gem Cutlery Elmer Stennes girandole banjo, 1968. A Stennes giran- Company Inc., New York. The time-only, 8-day dole is spectacular but I probably don’t need to tell you movement is presumably made by Sessions, but that. This 44-inch case is numbered ‘8’ and appears to I did not remove the front to inspect. The clock be dated ‘68’; the reverse glass paintings are marked is running without issue. The other razor adver- “M.E.R. 69”. The 8-day time-only movement is signed tiser clocks you occasionally see that had a simi- and numbered ‘4’. It is running easily. If you’re looking lar design were made by Ever-Ready, which had for a reason to not buy this one (other than the price), merged with Gem in 1906; these companies there is a bit of discoloring on the eagle finial’s right eventually became the Personna brand that was wing and beak and there is a discolored ball at 5:45. available as late as 2010. These clocks are not Horton’s sold one in 2017 for $3275. $2800-$3200. uncommon, selling on LiveAuctioneers for from $300 to $1750 in recent years. $300-$1200. 2. $1200 Welch, Spring & Co. “Regulator No. 2” ca. 1874. A big regulator 5. $250 with an 18-inch dial and 54 inches overall in length. The veneer is Chauncey & Noble Jerome round-side shelf clock, 1834-1839. This is rosewood, all original, with some chips on the outer edge of the an early brass movement clock from the brothers who invented and bezel as you would expect. I think some of the case is grain-painted marketed inexpensive brass movements. It stands 22 inches tall to match, including the interior sides and per- with mahogany veneer. The upper door glass is original, with pretty haps the flat section between the dial and the good retention of the reverse painting, while the lower glass is mod- lower door. The lower glass is a proper re- ern with an excellent rendition of the Merchant’s Exchange in Phila- placement; later versions of this clock had a delphia. The painted round dial shows some clear lower glass. The dial glass is original with age but has probably been repainted; it has a the original putty, as hard as that is to believe. large center opening to display the brass move- The metal dial is old paint with some strength- ment. The hands are likely original. The interior ening to the numerals and some touch up to of the case retains the blue painted paper and chips at the winding ports and screw holes. the typical card label. There are two square Hands are original and as show in the catalog weights to drive the 30-hour time-and-strike drawings, page 241 of Ly’s Second Edition of unsigned movement. The movement is very Welch Clocks. The interior back of the case has similar to, but probably a later edition of the the original black flocking, and no label. The first Jeromes’ movements, as shown in Ly’s movement has solid brass plates, a deadbeat book American Clocks, Vol. 3. This is a nice ex- escapement and beats seconds as shown by ample of these early clocks. This clock sold at the seconds hand, and is as shown in Ly’s description. It is running, Harris in 2014 for $325. $250-$500. not vigorously, but once the proper positioning is achieved, reliably. It is an 8-day double wind, time only, driven by two small brass 6. $200 weights. The pendulum bob and stick appear to be original, and Chauncey & Noble Jerome round-side shelf clock, 1838-1839. A sec- there is a proper beat scale at the bottom signed “Welch, Spring & ond example with some differences: The mahogany finish is darker; Co., Forestville Conn.” Make room for this one, it will command its the upper door glass is original but has been rebacked; the lower space. Only a couple of examples in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, glass is original and retains the original reverse painting, but has most recently (2016) at Schmitt’s for $1700. $1200-$1600. been touched up, most noticeably on the house. The dial has the original zinc finish the 3. $875 Jeromes used on these clocks. There is a brass Wm. Gilbert “Regulator No. 11” ca. 1891. A great escutcheon and key. The brass 30-hour, early I- walnut case, clean as a whistle, 49 inches long. beam movement is unsigned, with square The top piece is a well-made replacement that weights, and is running and striking. The interi- matches the original, the rest of the case original. or retains the blue paper and card label. A The door glass and left side-glass are modern, the second nice example of these early weight- right side-glass appears original. The yellowed driven brass clocks; there are two more later in paper dial is signed, the hands are correct. There the auction. This clock sold at Cottone’s in are two small brass weights that drive the 8-day, 2014 for $200. $200-$400. time-only movement, running down each side of the case. The unsigned brass movement is run- 7. $125 ning steadily. There is no label, and usually isn’t. Jeromes, Gilbert, Grant & Co. brass dial OG, 1839-1840. The Spittlers Horton’s sold a nice one last summer for $1160. & Bailey (American Clockmakers & Watchmakers, Vol. 3) state that $900-$1200. this firm was the first to produce low priced 30- hour, brass weight-movement clocks. This OG is 4. $300 26 inches tall with good mahogany veneer all Gem Cutlery Co. “Damaskeene Razor” advertising clock, ca. 1910. around. Both glasses are old, the upper possibly The clock is 37 inches long with the pendulum and 23 inches across. original, and have been rebacked and touched The front of the clock is flat with a three-dimensional appearance up. The brass dial numbering has been repaint- from the painted wood surface. There is considerable wear and ed and sits slightly off-center relative to the door flaking to the painted finish. Some of these clocks have a labeled glass dial mask. A decent label inside and an old pendulum bob advertising “Quality Cutlery”. The label on the back pendulum bob with two small square weights gives instructions on how to assemble the clock, and notes that the drive the early 30-hour brass time-and-strike

2 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures movement. A nice example of an early clock. $150-$250. mation provided with this clock (see photo). This clock is shown on page 199 of Ly’s book Calendar Clocks. This is an uncommon clock 8. $350 that Horton’s has not sold in recent times; Schmitt-Horan sold one North Attleboro-style banjo, 1840-1870. This 29-inch in 2018 for $1100. banjo would appear to be an amalgam of styles from the North Attleboro makers in the mid-1800’s. The 12. $1000 case is clearly 1800’s-vintage, mahogany or walnut Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “Chronometer”, 1890- without grain-painting, and the modern glasses are 1906. An elegant Ithaca, 33 inches tall in walnut painted in Howard colors but with a Hatch-style design with a pendulum that hangs in front of the calen- on the tablet. The throat glass may be older. The pen- dar dial. This case has been cleaned and parts of dulum stick and bob are Hatch style (where the bob the crest replaced, including the small square hooks onto the stick). The movement is unsigned, the ornaments on the front of the crest, the finials, lead weight old, the dial modern with proper hands. A and the right return. There is nice gold incising nice looker. It is running. $350-$500. on the dial masks and old glass in the door with proper gold lettering; a bit of loss to the ‘C’ in 9. $350 Chronometer. The old paper dials are in good Modern No. 5 Banjo, 1981. This cherry-cased banjo shape with the proper labeling, and the hands, was made by Clyde M. Spencer (signed on back and pendulum bob and stick are correct. The 8-day baseplate) and holds a signed Wayne Cline 8-day time-and-strike movement is unsigned and new. movement, driven by a lead weight behind a full- It is running strongly and striking on a cathedral gong; the calendars length cherry baffle. It is 29 inches long with a mod- are advancing. There is a label on the backboard. It is difficult to ern dial, hands, and glasses. It is running nicely; an- find these where the crest has not been repaired. $1000-$1500. other very nice-looking banjo clock at an affordable price. $350-$500. 13. $350 Jeromes & Darrow pillar & scroll, 1828-1833. Chauncey made the 10. $200 cases, Noble the wooden movements, and Elijah Darrow painted Reguladora grandmother clock, ca. 1970? This is a 68- the tablets. Not known for pillar & scrolls, so this is uncommon. inch grandmother clock made in Portugal in the late The 28.5-inch case has a repair to the right scroll 20th century. Reguladora (Fabrica Nacional de Relogi- tip and a repainted lower glass, which was re- os) is the oldest clock and watch manufacturer in Por- placed long ago. The dial glass is original. There is tugal, based in Vila Nova de Famalicao in northern an ivory escutcheon and key, two tin pully covers, Portugal. The case is lacquered in a cream color with two old weights, an old wooden dial and hands. raised gold floral decorations on all surfaces. Some of Most of the label inside is lost, but enough is there the gilded trim paint is chipping off, particularly along to establish the makers. It needs an adjustment to the top edge of the hood. There is a beveled glass in the escape anchor to run, 30-hour, time-and-strike the hood door and fabric-backed grids on the sides to on an iron bell. I did not inspect the movement allow the chime (Westminster or Ave Maria) come gears, but it will strike. The brass urn finials are through on the quarter hours; it plays on six chime heavy with wood posts. $350-$600. rods and counts the hours on four rods on the oppo- site side. It is spring-driven with a pendulum; the 14. $500 movement is heavy and well-made. It is running, chim- Eli Terry pillar & scroll, ca. 1822. Terry developed the pillar & scroll ing, and striking as required. Not a common clock. $200-$500. clock with the standard five-wheel train movement about 1822. He formed a partnership with his sons Eli Jr. and Henry in 1823, so there 11. $900 weren’t a lot of these 5-wheel clocks made with Jerome & Co. “Dneister” calendar clock, ca. 1886. The cool thing just Eli Terry’s name. The case is 29 inches high, about this clock is that it came as both a shelf and wall clock, with with some repairs to the mahogany veneer on the the base attached behind the crest. To mount it on a wall you re- door; there is an ivory escutcheon, no key. Both moved the base from behind the crest and hooked it onto the bot- glasses appear to be original, the tablet repainted tom of the clock. Voila! Two – two – two by Tom Moberg. The dial board is old and soiled clocks in one! The 33-inch walnut case has a with typical Terry-style embellishments, the hands very old finish with plenty of room for a thor- are old. Great label inside. The 30-hour wooden ough cleaning. The center ornament on the movement will run briefly, driven by two old top has lost some edges, and the wall-base has weights, striking on an iron bell. The brass urn lost three buttons on the bottom piece of trim. finials mount on wooden posts and are the correct I can’t exclude the possibility that one or all of style for Terry. I don’t see any repairs to the scroll top and no evi- the dial mounting boards has been replaced, dence that it is a replacement. A very nice example of a rare clock and there appear to be newer support pieces by the most famous maker of the period. $500-$800. inside. The door glass is likely original. I as- sume the paper dials are relatively recent re- 15. $400 placements, but they match the original dial Eli & Samuel Terry pillar & scroll, 1824-1827. Eli provided the factory papers perfectly, and are signed “Jerome & and brother Samuel made the clocks; Sam later set out on his own. Co.” with the logo. All the hands appear to be The mahogany veneer on the 29-inch case is in good shape with a original. The 8-day unsigned time-and-strike movement is running few repairs on the door; there is a glossy finish overall. The scroll fine and the calendars are advancing. There is provenance infor- top is original, but the left scroll has been repaired. The ivory es-

3 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures cutcheon has been replaced with wood and a else looks very original, and in very good small knob; the latch is nonfunctional. I don’t shape. The scroll tips are unrepaired – how see any issues with the feet and skirt. Both often do you see that?! The brass urn finials glasses are modern, the tablet repainted but are Seth Thomas style, with metal posts; the unsigned. The wooden dial is Terry style, based feet and skirt look fine. The dial is clean, the on the decoration, and the chapter ring and nu- hands appear to be replacements. There is an merals have been repainted. The hands are old. ivory escutcheon and door key. The 30-hour There is a good but dark label inside. The three wooden works is running and striking, driven brass urn finials are correct and mount on wood- by two old weights and regulated by a lead- en posts. The 30-hour wooden movement will backed pendulum bob. Good label inside. An run for a few minutes. Pillar & scroll clocks from attractive example. $400-$600. these makers are not uncommon and generally sell for $500-$750. 19. $350 Forestville Manufacturing Co. ripple-front cottage, 1842-1849. The 16. $5000 movement is signed Forestville Manufacturing Co., as is the label, Seth Thomas reeded pillar & scroll, ca. 1816. with J.C. Brown as proprietor; his signature is also on the old paint- Perhaps the first pillar & scroll model made ed dial. The rosewood-veneered case is 15 inches high with ripple and considered to be a transitional model to around the outer edge of the case and around the door and cross- the more common off-center pillar & scroll. bar. The finish is a bit rough and could stand to be Indeed, I know of only five examples, this cleaned, if you don’t like a patina. Both glasses being one of them; it is described along with are old, the dial glass with a nice surround, and the second example in an article in the the tablet, of a palace or public building on a lake, NAWCC Bulletin in 1962 by W.F. Pritchett. If is original with some losses across the middle. I you are a member you can read the article like the tablet. There is a brass knob on the door here; if you are the winning bidder I will in- and an unusual pendulum hanger. The label is clude a photocopy of the article. The third behind plastic. It is running and striking; the time- example I am aware of is described by Ly in side click-stop has been replaced. J.C. Brown American Clocks Vol. 3, page 143, and the fourth and fifth were sold cottages, and Brown clocks in general, are still by Horton’s in 2002 and 2003. This model is sometimes called an commanding good prices; several sold at “inside-outside” P&S, as the escape wheel is visible behind the dial Schmitt’s last fall for $300-$600. $350-$600. but the pendulum swings behind the dial rather than in front of it, as is found with Eli Terry’s “outside escapement” P&S. The second 20. $160 thing that makes this clock unusual is the full-length glass, with the Boardman & Wells fusee steeple, 1837-1843. These tablet demarcated by a gold leaf border rather than a wooden cross guys were prolific clockmakers in Bristol CT. This -piece. Note the painted spandrels around the dial and the plain clock is 19 inches tall with good mahogany veneer. wooden dial, save the war eagle bottom center. The hands are Both glasses are old, the Fenn tablet original, with brass. Other differences from later P&S clocks include the reeding an eagle carrying an olive branch and arrows, with on the front sides and behind the straight columns, the short feet, 13 stars overhead. Exceptional. The dial is original and the wooden urn finials. The wooden strap, 30-hour movement with soiling and chipping, the hands very old, and is driven by two small lead weights compounded on pulleys and is the unsigned 30-hour brass fusee movement is run- running and striking readily. There is an excellent label inside. The ning but the strike is stalled. Good label inside and clock is 27.5 inches tall and appears to be the most original example an old pendulum bob. What more could you ask of this model. $5000-$7500. for? A key? It’s included! This clock sold at Schmitt’s in 2014 for $180. $160-$200. 17. $300 Charles Kirke pillar & scroll, 1827-1832. There are only three sales 21. $150 records for Charles Kirke clocks in the Antique Ansonia “Florentine No. 4”, ca. 1889. Called a Clocks Price Guide and none are P&S (he later ‘plush’ clock, covered in red velveteen, 13 inch- worked for E.C. Brewster). This is a 31-inch clock es high. The velveteen is not new, but not in mostly original condition. Both glasses are likely original either. This model is shown on original, the tablet painting stabilized against page 566 of Ly’s book on Ansonia clocks. further losses; the wooden dial is clean, the There is a two-piece signed porcelain dial with hands old. The feet are unusual (the right front some cracks and losses behind a beveled glass. has been repaired) and the scroll tips have also Dull gold ornamentation on the side columns been repaired. The brass finials are screw-in and front. The embossed 8-day time-and-strike replacements. The 30-hour wooden movement movement is signed and dated 1889; it is running strongly and strik- is running and striking like a champ, with two old ing on the hours and half-hours. This clock sold at Harris in 2013 for weights and a lead-backed pendulum bob. Good $200. $150-$250. label, indicating that the clock was made for retailer George Mitchell. $300-$500. 22. $350 Wm. Gilbert “Octagon Drop Calendar”, 1861-1866. This is the first 18. $400 edition of the Maranville patent calendar dial, in which the days and Seth Thomas pillar & scroll, ca. 1830. A 31-inch clock with two re- month are adjusted with a winding key to turn the two dials behind placed glasses and the tablet painted by a Mr. Moberg. Everything the main dial: The upper key stud turns the month dial, the lower

4 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures stud turns the day of the week dial. You turn the 25. $300 weekday dial to adjust the weekdays to the cal- Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No. 2”, ca. 1876. The Fashion endar days. It’s quite simple and quite ingen- No. 2 was veneered with walnut and this one ious, if you don’t mind adjusting the calendar shows the usual chipping and losses, particular- every month. With that the red calendar hand ly along the top front edge. The bezels are tells you the day of the week and the date. Later good and may have been reveneered. The up- editions of this calendar dial let you use a pencil per dial glass is old, the lower glass is modern. to move the back dials; I like this version better. Both dials look original, with chipping, particu- The case is 24 inches long with good rosewood larly on the calendar dial; the hands are correct. veneer all around. Both glasses are new, the dial old, possibly origi- The finials are replacements. The movement is nal. Some chipping is evident. The hands are correct. The 8-day, signed by Seth Thomas, made for Southern time-and-strike movement is unsigned, running and striking on a Calendar Clock Co. It is running reluctantly and wire gong, and the calendar is advancing. A label inside. These will stop if I turn away from it; you’ll probably guys generally sell for around $400. $350-$500. need to have it cleaned. The pendulum bob is a replacement. It strikes on a large brass bell; the 23. $350 calendar hand and weekday roller is advancing. Good labels inside. Wm. Gilbert “Octagon Drop Calendar”, 1861-1866. A second version These clocks are common, often in rough condition, and sell based of the Maranville calendar; a similar example is shown on page 72 of on condition. I would expect this one to sell for $300-$500. Ly’s book Gilbert Clocks. This one is 22.5 inches long with a rose- wood veneer around the bezel, with some wear, and an interesting 26. $1200 pattern on the lower door. That door has an original Gilbert port- Seth Thomas “Fashion No. 5”, ca. 1887. This is hole glass; the dial glass is modern and the metal probably the first Fashion model made by Seth dial nicely repainted. All three hands are also Thomas for Seth Thomas, rather than for the new. As with #22, you have to advance the Southern Calendar Clock Co. (although some month and weekday calendar dials by using the appear to have been supplied to SCCC in its winding key on the studs at the top and bottom waning years). It is also the first Fashion model of the calendar. The 8-day time-and-strike move- with a long-drop pendulum, which was used in ment is signed and running, striking on a wire all subsequent ST Fashions and has a dama- gong on the hour, the calendar hand is advanc- scened nickel bob. The 32.5-inch case is walnut ing. There is a good label inside. This model is in excellent condition, the finials original. The less common than #22, but typically sells for door glass is original, with the correct lettering. $400 or so; Cottone’s sold one last year for $450. The dials have been repainted; the hands are $350-$500. correct. The movement is signed, running, striking on a cathedral gong, and the calendar is advancing nicely. 24. $400 There is a note with a bit of provenance out of Alabama and Louisi- Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No. 1”, ca. 1876. SCCC used a ana. You will not find a better example of this rather rare clock. Seth Thomas Parlor Calendar No. 3 case and movements (with one $1200-$1800. important difference) for their first Fashion clocks in the early 1870’s. How do you tell a Fashion No. 1 from a Seth Thomas Parlor 27. $2500 Calendar No. 3? That important difference in the cases – SCCC cases Seth Thomas “Fashion No. 7”, 1889. Current thinking is that this had an ogee-style base (seen here) rather than a quarter-round model was made almost exclusively for the C.J. Pettigrew Clock Co. base, as found on the ST clock (see Ly, Calendar Clocks, page 259). in Fort Worth, Texas by Seth Thomas in a limited run; these clocks Of course, SCCC labeled their dials with “FASHION” on the time dial, are very uncommon. The 32-inch walnut case is and “SOUTHERN CALENDAR CLOCK CO.” on in excellent condition with replacement finials the calendar dial (note that later versions of and an original door glass and Fashion lettering. this model had more extensive lettering). The Both dials have been repainted, with the sunk- original dials were paper over square zinc dials; en seconds dial being paper. The calendar dial many collectors have had the dials painted as is labeled for the Pettigrew Clock Co. as typical- the paper dials decayed, and as found here. ly found; all hands are correct. Most notable These dials have been painted and “aged” about this model is the flat top with an arched artificially. The- 8 day time-and-strike move- front – the only Fashion clock so made. There ment is signed Seth Thomas and strikes on an also are cutouts on the inside of the glass door original steel bell, as found in the early versions to accommodate the inner door hinges and the of this model. The calendar movement was inner doorknob; adjustments were made in patented by R.T. Andrews in 1876 and was also later models such that these cutouts were no used in the Parlor Calendar No. 3. This one is longer needed. The 8-day time-and-strike quite dirty and sticky, but miraculously the day and date advance movement is signed Seth Thomas and is running and striking on a when triggered by the time movement. This was the only Fashion cathedral gong, and the calendar is advancing. It uses a long-drop veneered in mahogany, and the veneer here looks great, with a pendulum with a damascened nickel bob and has an “outside fly”. clear finish. The only repair I see is on the upper bezel between the There is no label; the back of the case is dated October 1889. This is 6 and 7. There is an instruction label on the door, and another label, one of the most difficult Fashion clocks to find. $2500-$4000. mostly missing, inside. This model is much less common than the later models, and you often find it pretty beat up. $475-$600. 28. $2500 Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No. 8”, ca. 1887. This is a very

5 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures late model and a very scarce model. The key lettered in gold and the bezels and hands were brass, in contrast to difference with the No. 8 is the two rosettes the nickel hardware of the SCCC/ST Fashions. The finials were also inset into the inner door. Otherwise it uses different and compared most closely to the Fashion No. 9 finials the standard walnut case (with a full hood). made by New Haven (#29). The case here is dark and appears to The 32-inch case is in excellent condition, with have been overstained with walnut, hiding some of the grain; the three original finials. The door glass is old and door glass and lettering is original, and I believe the finials are as has the proper lettering. The painted metal well. The paper on the dials is almost certainly original and in excel- dials are old, possibly original, with correct lent shape, with some wear and tear. Some of the numbering has hands; there is some inpainting to the time been strengthened, and some black touched up. The hands are also dial and some of the numbering has been original. The movement is running and striking on a cathedral gong strengthened on the calendar dial. The sec- mounted on a nickel bell on the backboard. The calendar is advanc- onds bit dial is yellowed paper, and the calen- ing but the rollers are rubbing against the dial pan and sticking. dar rollers are very yellowed and dark. The 8- That can probably be adjusted. This clock last sold at Schmitt’s in day time-and-strike movement is signed Seth 2015 for $2500; it is one of four sales of this model that I can find Thomas and “Made solely for the Southern Calendar Clock Co.” online. It is pictured in Joel Warren’s book, Ithaca’s Clock Makers. This the standard long-drop pendulum movement they were mak- $1500-$2500. ing in the later years for SCCC. This example strikes on a large nickel bell. It is running, a bit delicately, and striking; the calendar is ad- Thanks to Tim Ritchhart for great explanations of the differences be- vancing. Because the presumably original dials are not labeled with tween the various Fashion clocks. the manufacturer/marketer it is not clear which company – ST or SCCC – was selling this model. There are some differences in the 31. $1250 parts used in various examples of this model, suggesting that it was William Cummens banjo, ca. 1830. Cummens was at the end of a production period. Another very difficult model to an apprentice of Simon Willard in Roxbury; his ban- find in good condition, and one that is easy to fake by modifying a jos are very similar to Willard’s but often a bit more No. 5 door. This example came from a highly regarded collector of decorative, including a signed dial, as found here. Fashion clocks. Described on page 290 of Ly’s book Calendar Clocks. The mahogany case, including the backboard, is 33 $2500-$4000. inches long with gilt framing and a gilt acorn finial; no cabinetmaker’s lot numbers are evident. Cum- 29. $600 mens favored mustard yellow backgrounds on his Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No. 9”, ca. 1889. This is the glasses and trim barbed arrow hands; while the New Haven version of the No. 9, made by the hands on this clock are original, as is the paint and New Haven Clock Co. for the SCCC after SCCC signature on the iron dial, I believe the glasses were changed ownership and moved to Columbus, replaced and repainted in the last century (the dial MS. The relocated firm was only in business glass also appears to be modern). The 8-day time- for a year or two. The case is made of hard- only movement matches other movements made wood stained dark walnut, with a flat top and by Cummens, including the T-bridge, the small crest rather than rounded top, as found on the straight click-pawl, and the weight cord tie-off pin on the lower left earlier Fashion models. The finials also differ post. It will only run under the best of conditions and will be very from the earlier finials and are also found on difficult to get running reliably. Note that the Roman numeral the Ithaca version. The glass in the door is XXXXVII is stamped into the pendulum keyhole. The duck bill lead modern, the Fashion lettering is correct. Black weight is correct. In 2018 Cottone’s sold three similar Cummens unlabeled paper dials were used, as found banjos for $1400, $2200, and $2500. $1400-$2000. here; these are likely replacements. The 8-day time-and-strike movement is signed with the 32. $650 New Haven logo. It is running, somewhat Early presentation banjo, ca. 1830. I can’t identify a delicately, and striking a rich deep gong on the hours and half- maker for this early banjo. The 32-inch case is ma- hours; the strike is a bit slow. The simple calendar is advancing. hogany, the front gilded with rope decoration, the There is a good white label inside with instructions and stating that tablet professionally redone and the throat either a the clock was made for the SCCC by the New Haven Clock Co. Hor- very early repaint or original with touch-up. I favor ton’s sold three of this model since 2017 for $777, $860, and $1075. the latter. The painted metal dial is held down with $750-$1000. L-turns and has been touched up and varnished. The hands look original. The time-only movement is 30. $1500 standard issue, driven by a lead weight. The weight Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion”, 1890- shield and tie-down may be original. It is running 1903. The ICCC began making Fashion clocks nicely. $700-$1000. after the Southern Calendar Clock Co. had sold their business to Seth Thomas in 1887. ICCC 33. $500 developed a similar case of solid walnut, 32 Chelsea Clock Co. “Shamrock” banjo, 1905-1909. A 34-inch weight- inches tall, and bought 8-day time-and-strike driven banjo timepiece in a dark mahogany case with the uncom- movements from the Gilbert Clock Co. These mon “Shamrock” glasses. Faith and Begorrah! I can’t find any other movements were unsigned, as found here. examples or sales of this model. The painted metal dial is unsigned, ICCC used their own calendar movements and the hands appropriate, with a convex dial glass. The 8-day time-only black paper dials, with the calendar dial signed movement is signed and running without issue; the serial number “Ithaca Calendar Clock Co.” The dials were dates it to 1905-1909. The pendulum is Chelsea, the weight is origi-

6 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures nal and bolts in from the back, there is no weight This mahogany-veneered case is 32.5 inches long with shield and never was. These types of Chelsea banjos the top fleur-de-lis finial. The iron dial holds the origi- typically sell for $400-$900. nal paint and a faint “William Pratt | Boston” signa- ture, held in place with j- hooks; the moon hands may 34. $1000 be replacements. The 8-day time-only movement Elmer Stennes weight-driven banjo, 1972. Here is a 33- matches that shown for a Pratt banjo in Willard’s inch all-wood banjo from Mr. Stennes that I have not Patent Time Pieces by Foley (page 68); it is running seen before and can find no other examples or sales. without problem. The dial glass is a replacement; the It is stamped “4” on the case parts, suggesting that throat glass is original with the original painted de- there are at least three others out there, and sign, the tablet is repainted (unsigned) on old glass. “M.C.I.P.” is stamped along the bottom of the cherry The banjo weight looks like a modern substitute, and case, indicating that it was made while there is a complete pendulum tie-down. $600-$1000. in prison for killing his wife. Also stamped on the bottom right glue block in the box is the number 72, 38. $400 indicating the year of manufacture. The painted dial Waltham mid-size, lever movement banjo, ca. 1930. is signed, including the logo bumblebee at the bot- This banjo is 30 inches tall with a “Special Movement tom, the 8-day time-only movement is signed as well, with Lever Escapement”. The case is walnut, the with the number “5”. The dial glass is slightly con- glasses original in good shape, the tablet showing vex. There is a lead weight, a small weight shield, Perry’s Victory of 1813 on Lake Erie. There is some and a tie-down and crank. It is running without issue. chipping on the dial around the winding port. It is Most notably, there is a signed letter written in pen, running and keeping time. This is the least common addressed to his “Kids” from October 1973, letting size of Waltham banjos, I can only find a few sales in them know he will be in Ft. Lauderdale and noting the last decade. $500-750. the hotel. He says he will be there with “his new little chicken” (Phyllis Means, who he married in De- 39. $750 cember of that year). Both were shot two years lat- James C Cole banjo, ca. 1830. Cole worked in Roches- th er, allegedly by his son, and Elmer died. The assumption here is that ter NH in the first half of the 19 centu- this was a clock he gave to one of his four kids, as the letter came ry as a clock and watch maker and jeweler. He made with the clock. Stennes banjos sell for $1000-$1800. tall-case clocks and banjos, but only one other banjo is listed in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. This banjo 35. $350 is 33 inches tall with a 7-inch painted metal dial that Waterbury “Willard No. 4” banjo, ca. 1906. This is one includes his signature, probably restored in part of Waterbury’s top-line banjos in the Willard series. It where there appears to be some inpainting. The came in spring- and weight-driven forms; this one is minute hand has been repaired. The convex dial weight-driven, time only. It is 42 inches long with the glass is a replacement, as is the finial. Both glasses gilt wooden finial on top. The 8-inch dial is porcelain, are old and the eglomise paintings may be original; signed, and behind a convex glass. The glasses are the throat glass is cracked at the top. Note that original; the tablet shows some losses in the middle there is some molding missing on the left side of the but is still very nice. The 8-day movement is signed throat. The brass T-bridge pinned movement is un- and running fine. The weight is lead, behind a tin signed, running strongly with a lead weight. A rare weight shield with a Waterbury pendulum in front. example from this maker; the clock noted above in There is a partial label on the back. All in all, this is a the Antique Clocks Price Guide sold at RO Schmitt’s in 2018 for nice clock and should keep good time. Waterbury $2000. $800-$1200. Willards sell for $300-$600. 40. $350 36. $800 Waltham Clock Co. “No. 31 Colonial”, ca. 1905. A 40- Wayne Cline banjo, ca. 1980. A 32-inch banjo with inch weight-driven banjo timepiece in a dark mahoga- cross-banded trim around the throat and tablet, the ny case with a throat glass picturing George Washing- latter showing Perry’s victory over the British on Lake ton and a tablet of Mount Vernon. The throat back- Erie in 1813. The painted dial is signed Wayne R. Cline, ground has been touched up. The dial glass is con- Bowling Green, KY, behind a bowed glass in the sash. vex, the metal dial is signed, the hands correct, as is The 8-day, time-only movement is signed as well, the eagle finial. The signed movement is running made by the C.A. Lenderman Clock Co. It is running reliably. The throat piece has been modified to without issue, driven by a lead weight also signed. The mount in place, and I am not convinced it is original eagle finial on top is new. This is an uncommon model to the clock; or perhaps the original wooden tabs from Mr. Cline and I did not find a match in Horton’s broke off. $400-$600. recent sales or in the Antique Clocks Price Guide; he more commonly made diamond-head banjos. $900- 41. $7500 $1200. French “mystery clock”, ca. 1910. A 28-inch bronze statue of a winged woman holding a hanging ball 37. $500 clock which rotates rather than swings. The clock movement in the William Pratt banjo, 1835-1844. William Pratt worked out of Boston hanging ball is suspended on a wire mechanism that somehow con- after finishing his training with William Grant in 1835, initially by him- verts the spring tension and escapement to a rotary motion. I took self and later (1844) with his brother, and later again with his sons. the back off but could not see how it works. And unfortunately, it is

7 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures not working well. It wants to rotate but the a nickel bell behind the movement on the half-hours. It is running gentle clicking inside from the escapement is not and striking without issue. A nice model, not as big as some of maintained. It should be possible to get it run- Welch’s regulators. We sold one in January for $550. $300-$500. ning by someone with experience with these clocks. The casting is high quality and in excel- 45. $1000 lent shape, with different bronze colors for the Howard & Davis “No. 3 Regulator”, ca. 1858. A 38-inch banjo with a skin of the mother and child vs the clothing and rich mahogany stain, all that’s left of the original other parts. I see no defects or damage, alt- rosewood graining. All three glasses are modern hough the hour hand has been repaired. The and the throat and tablet repainted. An old paper sculpture is signed “Rancoulet” (Ernest Rancou- dial, signed, is likely a replacement for the original let, 1870-1915) on the back and on the nameplate paper dial; the minute hand is a replacement (both on the base, with the title Tresor de la Terre may be). The 8-day unsigned movement is running (Treasure of the Earth) as the original sculpture and as you can see it has been rebushed. The iron by this French artist. It sits on a wooden base. weight is correct and numbered “3”. The pendulum This piece was owned by Carroll Horton for 28 stick repainted, it may or may not be original, but years. An impressive piece. $7500-$15000. the hardware with it is. The bob is correct and there is a working tie-down and crank. The tolerances are 42. $750 close on this clock; to get it running reliably takes Seth Thomas “Office Calendar No. 5”, ca 1980. This is an unsigned some fiddling to get everything “just right”. On the reproduction of this large and impressive wall calendar clock. It is other hand, it is not too big and not too small, just right. Horton’s very well made with the correct ornaments and carvings (see Ly, has not sold a No. 3 recently, and recent auction prices vary consid- Seth Thomas Clocks & Movements, Vol. 1, page 94). It is 47 inches erably, from $1000 to $2500. long in what looks like solid walnut or mahogany. Both dials are new, the hands correct. The 8-day, time-only, 46. $7500 weight-driven movement is unsigned, the calen- Asa Munger “Stovepipe” shelf clock, 1834. dar movement appears new. There is a correct I can find five examples of this model, this pendulum stick and a large plain brass bob hang- being the sixth. The “stovepipes” are the ing in front of a brass beat scale, as found on the columns on each side, made of sheet iron originals. The bottom glass for viewing the pen- and elaborately painted; I believe these dulum does not open. The clock is running and have been professionally repainted. The the calendar is advancing; unfortunately, the key elongated round weights are compound- to the door latch has gone missing. This clock ed and hang from pulleys at the top of the looks darn good and will be hard to distinguish case. There are carved ornaments and from an original. An original sold at Fontaine’s capitals, a carved crest, and two pineapple last fall for $5000; Horton’s sold this reproduc- finials. The door over the dial opens to tion two years ago for $875. $750-$1200. give access to the movement from the front; there is also a tin cover over an 43. $1600 opening on the back. Nonetheless, access Seth Thomas “Office Calendar No. 3”, ca. 1863. Always a popular is difficult, including threading the cord model (the “Peanut”); this one has the original over the pulleys (the pulleys do not match rosewood veneer with an old and somewhat spotty – the original one is pewter, the replace- finish. Some wear to the varnish, but no veneer ment has spokes). The lower door is often repairs that I see. Both glasses are old, the dials a single mirror; here it is two eglomise paintings protected by a repainted by The Dial House in 2014; there is a key wooden cover. Both images are original as best Lee Davis and I can for the door. All hands are correct. This is an early tell and are quite unusual for a Munger stovepipe clock. Lee re- ST calendar model; this one is just 23 inches tip to placed the peeling background and secured the upper image of a tip. It contains the standard round movement, young woman; she appears to be holding a letter with a slightly double-wind time only, 8-days. It is unsigned, run- forlorn look on her face. The lower, somewhat primitive image was ning, and the calendar is advancing. The last one also stabilized and shows a farmhouse with two children playing sold by Horton’s was in January of 2019 for $2465; and a horse rider speaking to someone by the door. The metal dial this clock sold in 2016 for $3250. $1600-$2800. is mounted on the brass 8-day time-and-strike movement; it has the Munger trademark seconds hand (literally), but the dial does not 44. $250 show a signature or even the remains of one; it appears to have not E. N. Welch “Sinico”, ca. 1885. A 40-inch black wal- been stamped with Munger’s familiar logo, perhaps because it was nut case in what must be the original finish, dark made by Munger & Benedict, as suggested below. The winding and grungy. It certainly could be cleaned up. The drums are pewter; note the date 1834 on bell hammer. The hands door glass is newer, rather roughly puttied in. Parts appear to be original, the dial glass is not. The weights are proper, of the base are missing, including the entire back the flying eagle pendulum, also a Munger trademark, is very old and piece and a piece broken off the front. The top is worn. The label is a photocopy of what should be there on top of intact and complete; there is a shred of a label on the wallpaper dust cover, the remnants of which can be seen at the the back. The dial is old paper, worn, and may also top of the opening. The wooden ring that holds the right stovepipe be original; it is not signed. The hands are correct. in place is broken, has been glued, and will need more. The clock This model has a large 8-day time-and-strike move- runs without problem, striking the bell over the movement on the ment that strikes a cathedral gong on the hours and hours. It is 40 inches tall and 19.5 inches wide. This clock was in-

8 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures cluded in a 1966 article in the NAWCC Bulletin on Munger clocks by like all Sonora bell chimes, sounds fabulous. Get one and see, you the late Freeman McMillan, in which he describes it as “the only one won’t be sorry. And if you are, I’ll take it back! A similar model lack- with painted tablets instead of a mirror in the lower door.” McMil- ing the marqueterie sold in January for $629. $400-$600. lan suggests it is a Munger & Benedict clock. Three recent sales of stovepipe clocks on LiveAuctioneers for $9000, $17,000, and 50. $150 $34,000. $8,000-$12,000. Seth Thomas “Chime Clock No. 14” ca. 1921. This is a 4-rod Sonora chime clock that strikes Westminster chimes on the quarter hours Thanks to Russ Oechsle for the tip on the NAWCC article! on four rods and counts the hours by striking all four rods at once. Although the rod-strike chimes are considered 47. $3500 inferior to the bell strike, I hear very little differ- Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 3 Vienna”, ca. 1880. ence; the rods sound great. It stands 15 inches tall A 52-inch walnut case in wonderful condition, clean in dark mahogany with some craquelure to the and polished, but not without patina. The burl wal- finish, as is common with these clocks. The dial is nut insets in the four corners of the door are quite silvered with even wear, behind a domed beveled nice. This clock has had significant restoration, in- glass. I believe the minute hand is a replacement. cluding a new base, backboard, finials, and pendu- The clock is running and striking as expected. $150 lum stick, all by Joel Warren. The crest is original -$250. but note that the centerpiece has been broken off and glued into place. The repair is not noticeable. 51. $750 The door glass is old but I wouldn’t bet that it is Bradley & Hubbard, “Topsey”, ca. 1870. Perhaps the most desirable original. This is the early version of this model, with blinking eye clock. She stands 17 inches tall in cast iron. Like most the pierced walnut dial board like that found in the of these old iron clocks she has been repainted; certainly the skirt, No. 0 Bank model. The back of the dial board shows where you can see paint chips underneath the newer paint. Likely evidence of once being covered with red cloth. The her blouse, possibly the stockings and shoes as paper dials are in clean condition, good numbering, well. The thing to look for with blinking eye clocks with some wear marks on the calendar dial. This model contains a are the eyes, which should be white with black 30-day double-wind movement made by Welch for the Ithaca Calen- pupils. They are often replaced with doll’s eyes. dar Clock Co. as shown on page 130 of Ly’s Calendar Clocks. The There are modern reproductions as well as antique calendar movement is also period/original. The clock is running, copies made in Europe. The cast iron bases are not keeping time, and the calendar is advancing. These clocks did not signed with Topsey. The fit on this one to the base come with labels. Recent sales range from $2100 to $3800. is not quite right, suggesting that it may have been banged around, or the base is from another figure. 48. $3000 The 30-hour balance lever movement is sometimes Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 3 Vienna”, ca. 1880. A second 52- signed Waterbury Clock Co, but often not; this one inch walnut case in excellent condition. The base appears to be an is not signed. It is running and the eyes are moving up and down old replacement, as may be the finials; the crest is probably original. once you get it started, which you do by rocking it sideways. The The full-length dial board is the later version (after dial is old paper; the hands are correct, the dial glass replaced. 1886) with an incised pattern in gold on a These generally sell for $800-$1200; Horton’s sold one in January relacquered black board (rather than a fretwork 2019 for $1190. screen as in #47). This model contains a 30-day dou- ble-wind movement made by Welch for the Ithaca 52. $500 Calendar Clock Co. as shown on page 130 of Ly’s Bradley & Hubbard “Sambo”, ca. 1870. A popular example of black Calendar Clocks. The calendar movement is also Americana and often thought of as the partner period/original; the pendulum stick has been broken to Topsey, this 16-inch cast iron clock portrays a and repaired twice and the bob seems like a replace- banjo player with eyes that move up and down as ment. Both paper dials are replacements, as are the the clock ticks. This example has been fully re- roller covers. The hands are old. The clock is run- painted and “antiqued” to give an aged patina. ning, keeping time, and the calendar is advancing, It also appears to have a glossy overcoat. The although the weekday roller slips and should be eyes are original, the paper dial likely replaced, glued down. No label. An ICCCo key is included. hands appropriate, dial glass replaced. The brim Recent sales range from $2100 to $3800. of the hat appears to have been broken and re- paired, but is not noticeable. The unsigned 30- 49. $325 hour balance lever movement is running strong- Seth Thomas “Chime Clock No. 64” ca. 1914. This is a 5-bell Sonora ly, the eyes moving up and down. More common chime clock that strikes Westminster chimes on than Topsey, and of course there are many reproductions and exam- the quarter hours on four bells and counts the ples where the movement has been replaced with a modern move- hours by striking all four bells at once. The fifth ment. Look for the smile in the dial. $500-$800. bell serves as a resonator in this model. The round gothic case is 14 inches tall with blond 53. $250 wood inlays (shaded marqueterie) on the front; Ansonia “Monarch”, ca. 1880. A popular Ansonia shelf clock with a it is in good condition all around with no dents very fancy cast brass dial surround and elaborate carvings. It stands or scratches. A six-inch silvered dial with even 24 inches tall in walnut. The case is in good condition with a few wear sits behind a beveled convex glass. It is nicks and scratches. The urn finial is missing the topmost piece, and running and striking as required, and of course, the side arms may be replacements; the door glass is a proper re-

9 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures placement. The dial is painted and signed; the 8- two original gilt angel statues. The right angel has lost some gilt, day, time-and-strike movement is running and but the left angel is still bright. The painted dial is chipping around striking on a nickel bell and there is a fancy two- the edges and has darkened, but the brass bezel and trim are still barrel pendulum and a signed beat scale. Com- bright. The hands are replacements. The painted graining effect on partment in the bottom front to store the key. A the base has been lost from the left side, but otherwise the walnut nice example; these still sell for upwards of $300. case is clean in an old finish. The New Haven movement is running $300-$450. and striking the hours and half-hours on a nice-sounding cathedral gong. There is a service label on the back from 1905. New Haven 54. $200 Occidentals are reasonably common, selling from $200-$450; some- F. Kroeber “Champion with Alarm”, ca. 1881. where around $300 is typical with a wide range of prices dependent Kroeber’s version of the Monarch, complete with a fancy ornamen- on condition. $200-$350. tal bezel and glass scale pendulum. This guy is 23.5 inches high but is missing the top wooden winged urn found on this model and the 57. $200 Ansonia Monarch – we have a metal spire replacement here. The E. Ingraham mirrorside, ca. 1900. Not shown in Ly’s book on Ingra- paper dial shows considerable wear, the stenciled door glass is like- ham clocks and I cannot find a sales record in the ly original and very nice. The case has an old Antique Clocks Price Guide, but I have no doubt finish and a nice patina, the color of mahogany. that Ingraham made a mirrorside as they were There is burled trim around the bottom and a quite popular in their day. Just over 24 inches tall secret drawer in front to hold the key, which in walnut with two old mirrors and an old and does not come with this clock. The 8-day time- nicely decorated door glass. The putti statues are and-strike Kroeber movement is running and in bright gold as are the case ornaments and In- striking on the hour on a nickel bell. We didn’t graham pendulum bob. The paper dial is twice- test the alarm. There are two nice labels on the signed and clean; the 8-day time-and-strike move- back. Someone made a base for this clock as ment is also signed and is running and striking like shown in one picture. It is nice but the finish a champ. No label, unfortunately. An attractive doesn’t quite match the color of the finish on example. $250-$400. the clock. It’s yours anyway if you are the lucky winning bidder. I can’t find any sales of this 58. $200 model on the Antique Clocks Price Guide or on LiveAuctioneers, or F. Kroeber “Occidental”, ca. 1880. An uncommon in Horton’s recent auctions, but I did find a sale on eBay in 2018 for mirrorside in original condition. The 24-inch black $361; it also was missing the top finial. $200-$300. walnut case is clean and in good shape, with an old door glass and two old mirrors in good shape. 55. $200 The stencil on the door glass is very worn, the Wm. Gilbert “Occidental”, ca. 1891. A mirrorside paper dial is about due for replacement, the to compete with all the other manufacturers at hands are correct replacements. The statues are the turn of the last century, when apparently old. The 8-day time-and-half-hour strike move- everyone wanted a mirrorside clock. Walnut with ment is signed, running, and striking on a cathe- an old finish and a nice burled or grained veneer dral gong. The single-barrel pendulum is correct around the bottom of the case. The top finials for this model (see Ly Kroeber Clocks page 321), are not quite as shown in the catalog illustration but you more commonly see a glass scale pendulum. The top finials in Ly’s book, Gilbert Clocks, but we have seen this do not match those shown in the catalog illustrations, but since finial style on other Gilbert Occidentals. The mir- these cases were made for a variety of clock manufacturers, they rors and angel statues are old, the door glass may be correct for the year manufactured. There is a drawer on this appears to be a more recent replacement. An model where you can keep the key or your valuables. No label left older paper dial with some yellowing, but not quite so badly that it on the back. We have not sold a Kroeber mirrorside, and there are has to be replaced; hands are correct. The Gilbert-signed move- only four sales in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, averaging $300 in ment is running and striking on the hour and half-hour on a fancy recent years. $250-$350. cathedral gong. There is also an alarm, untested here, and a signed Gilbert winding key. The pendulum is a fancy Gilbert pendulum with 59. $250 a pointer to show the fast/slow adjustment. Remains of a label on Birge & Fuller triple decker shelf clock, 1844-1848. the back, and two service labels on the bottom from a repair shop A renovated 8-day weight-driven clock from the in Oregon in 1895. Although a Gilbert Occidental sold for $456 on 1840’s, with a new eagle splat, three replaced eBay as recently as 2018, these more typically fetch around $250 glasses, and two nicely repainted tablets. The these days. $200-$300. original wooden dial board is in good shape with a large center opening to see the early strap-brass 56. $200 movement. The hands are correct. The mahoga- New Haven “Occidental”, ca. 1900. Yes, another ny veneer and finish are clean and polished, the mirrorside, this one by New Haven. As you may label is largely intact, and there are two old match- gather, our collector had a near-complete collec- ing weights and an old impressed pendulum bob. tion of mirrorsides, all in top original condition, Two keys for the doors. The clock is running and and this is no exception. This one has the later striking like a champ. A good-looking example (1911 vs 1895) glass and pendulum (see Ly New ready for show, 38 inches tall. Horton’s sold this clock in 2019 for Haven Clocks & Watches, page 311), correct finials, $350. $300-$500. original side mirrors in outstanding shape, and

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60. $250 just a small loss. Unfortunately, the original movement has been Silas Hoadley 30-hour tall case, ca. 1820. Silas worked with Seth replaced with a Seth Thomas movement; this likely means that the Thomas before 1813, and on his own thereafter. He made the repainted metal dial is also a replacement. I think the weights are wooden movements and the cases were made by others. This pine proper for the original movement. The clock is running and striking case is 85 inches tall and was likely painted when originally made. on a new wire gong; there is a full label inside with “The Breeze” Some were grain-painted to imitate expensive steam train at the top. The bottom portion has been lightly spray- woods. The case is simple and lacks complicated painted green. $150-$250. carvings and trim but does have two fluted quarter -columns on each side on each side of the waist 63. $200 section and full columns on the hood. It is missing Dyer, Wadsworth & Co. (attr.) triple-decker, ca. 1838-1843. I can find a small piece of trim on the left-side waist molding. little information on W. Dyer who worked out of Augusta Georgia, It has a very plain base with splayed bracket feet assembling and selling clocks from Connecticut in the South to typical of the early 1800’s. There is a brass finial on avoid peddler’s fees. His name is associated top and a brass door latch that is probably a later with several partners in Georgia. There is very addition. The painted and signed wooden dial little left to the label in this clock which came mounts into a groove on the saddle board of the out of Alabama, but the name “DYER, WA… movement and fits perfectly into the hood frame, Augu…” can be made out (see photo), sug- suggesting that this movement, dial and case have gesting Dyer, Wadsworth & Co., Augusta GA. always been together; note that there have been The two-door clock is 38 inches tall with good repairs to the movement mount and the top part mahogany veneer all around. The carved splat of the case backwall has been replaced. The re- on top is likely a modern replacement; the dial pairs are not complete, as there is no hanger for glass is modern, as is the middle tablet, repaint- the pendulum on the new backwall, and so until a ed nicely; the period mirror is held in by new pendulum hanger is found this clock is just a look- putty. The ball feet are modern. The wooden er. The dial is clean and the painting is still sharp, dial has been professionally touched up, pri- with none of the common “stretch marks” one marily the cream background; the slide-in mir- often sees on old wooden dials. The intricately carved hands are ror is newer and does not have a lift wire; the heavy metal and period if not original; one subsidiary dial hand is a hands are original. The strap-brass movement is unsigned, but Dyer replacement (maybe both). There are two hand-made weights is said to have used movements from Birge & Mallory, and this (originally there were probably can weights filled with pebbles) on movement is of that period. This clock does not include weights but pull-up cords, and a heavy period pendulum and rod. $250-$500. two weights that will work in this clock are listed in Parts (item 901). The clock is running with those weights and striking on cue. $200- 61. $350 $400. E. Thayer & Co. reeded 30-hour shelf clock, 1830 -1837. A 38-inch wooden-works shelf clock with 64. $200 reeded side columns and a tripartite door with Seth Thomas triple decker, ca. 1860. The 32- an old mirror in the middle and an original tab- inch case is rosewood veneer, dirty but intact; let on the bottom. The dial glass is very old, but the gold columns were repainted some time it looks like all three glasses have been reput- ago, the three glasses are original with very tied into place. The tablet has considerable nice original designs. The painted contoured losses, but maybe not enough to justify repaint- dial is likely original as well and has been ing. The polychrome wooden dial is outstand- touched up where the paint chipped off, with ing, one of the prettiest I’ve seen. The hands faded flowers in the spandrels; the hands are are period. The scroll-top is questionable; it period and appropriate. The 8-day, weight- looks rather amateur, but from the back looks driven, time-and-strike movement is signed very old and matches the surrounding wood. Seth Thomas, Plymouth Hollow, and bears the American eagle in The scroll tips do not warp backward and show no repairs. The the center; it is very dirty, has several solder repairs, and runs for brass urn finials are heavy and on metal posts. The wooden 30-hour only a few minutes; it strikes on a wire gong that is either moved or “groaner” movement is running and striking without problem, driv- replaced. A pendulum bob and crank are included; there are no en by two appropriate weights. It strikes a bell on top of the case; weights, but two weights that will work in this clock are listed in the pulleys have tin covers but I don’t think they are original. There Parts (item 902). A dark label from Plymouth Hollow, dating this is a key to the working door lock. Thayer worked with his son in clock to pre-1865. A very original ST triple decker that would clean Williamsburgh MA but this appears to be his only venture into clock up with some effort. $200-$400. manufacture. $350-$500. 65. $150 62. $150 Forestville Manufacturing Co. triple decker, Birge, Peck & Co. triple-decker, 1849-1859. A 1835-1839. The rosewood or mahogany Empire triple decker with a 32-inch mahogany-veneered case is 36.5 inches tall on four newer ball feet, case in very good refinished condition. All three with a new dial glass, a repainted center glass glasses are old, the bottom mirror period, the on old glass, and a new bottom glass; both middle tablet likely a very old replacement, and repainted images are by Tom Moberg and are the dial glass replaced with old glass. The mid- worth more than the asking price. The finish dle table is really quite nice, a colored litho- on the case is mixed, some is good, some very graph of the public square in New Haven with bad – note the base and bottom corbels. The

11 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures door pins are also loose, and the top door lacks its escutcheon. The 69. $250 wooden dial is clean, possibly repainted. The 8-day, time-and-strike, Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 7 Shelf Cottage”, weight-driven movement is unsigned but has a solid escape wheel 1869-1878. An early and popular model, 22 inches typical of early Forestville Mfg movements. It is running and strik- tall in walnut with an oil finish. The finish here is ing on a square-base wire gong. There is a very nice label inside. good but it could stand a bit of clean-up. There is This clock does not come with weights, but two weights that will a small piece of the lower right corner trim miss- work in this clock are listed in Parts (item 903). $150-$250. ing. As always, the dials are paper over zinc with brass sashes; the hands are correct. The dials are 66. $200 in nice shape, with some discoloration and wear; Birge, Mallory & Co. triple decker, 1838-1843. A both glasses are new. The movement is the typi- very clean 38-inch case in mahogany veneer with cal LaPort Hubble 15-day time-only, unsigned. It burl mahogany columns, a period carved splat, and is running and the calendar date is advancing but the link to the two very nicely repainted tablets on newer glass. weekday roller is broken and will need professional repair. A few The dial glass is also newer, as are the feet. The shreds of the instruction label remain on the back. Prices for this wooden dial is clean with lots of gold but has some model on eBay range from $280 to $450. stretch marks; there is a window to view the brass movement that is covered by a liftable mirror from 70. $300 early twentieth century. Hands are appropriate. Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 7 Shelf Cottage”, The large strap brass movement is unsigned but 1869-1878. A second example of this popular 22- typical of Birge Mallory, including the solid escape inch shelf calendar clock in walnut with an old oil wheel; it is running and striking, but the strike is finish. The dials are paper over zinc with brass slow. A pendulum bob is included; this clock does not come with sashes, the time dial a recent replacement. The weights, but two weights that will work in this clock are listed in glasses are old and chipped at the bezels. The Parts (item 904). There is a nice label inside. $200-$400. movement is an 8-day time-and-strike from Welch; it is running and the calendar date is ad- 67. $100 vancing. The calendar rollers are very dark, and Williams, Orton, Preston’s & Co. Empire shelf clock, 1837-1843. A 29- the calendar hand has been poorly repaired. A inch case veneered in mahogany and refinished. bit of the instruction label remains on the back. This guy has a few issues. The top cornice looks $300-$450. like a replacement to me. Well done, but the wood looks newer from the back. The dial glass 71. $350 is old but is a replacement. The middle mirror is Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 8 Shelf Library”, old, possibly period; the lower door mirror is 1868-1883. This is one of the early shelf clock mod- likely period. The wooden dial was probably els from ICCC. A clean 25-inch walnut case with a varnished some time ago and is dark; the hands single center finial and two wings; the wings here are period. The paper label says “Improved are replacements. The bezels are brass, the glass- Clocks With Brass Bushings”; the wooden 30- es are new, the paper dials old replacements. The hour, time-and-strike movement does have brass hands are correct, including the calendar hand. bushings. The crutch lacks a hook for the pendulum rod and the The 8-day time-and-strike movement is signed E.N. weight cords are broken so it wasn’t tested to run. There are two Welch and is running and striking on the wire gong; 30-hour weights included, a pendulum bob, crank, and door key. the calendar is advancing. $400-$600. $100-$200. 72. $350 68. $100 Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 8 Shelf Library”, Birge, Mallory & Co. (attr.) triple decker, ca. 1840. A 38-inch case 1876-1883. A 25.5-inch walnut case with a clean with mahogany veneer and three sets of columns finish. The calendar glass is new, the dial glass old; framing the dial, center mirror (period/original) both are in nickel sashes; the paper time dial is an and bottom door with a repainted tablet on old old replacement, the calendar dial old/original. glass. The dial glass is original with the original Time hands are mismatched, the calendar hand putty. The top and bottom sets of columns may should be a Welch fan hand. Note the presence of show the original yellow paint, but the capitals an alarm, winding port at the bottom left. The and plinths, along with the center set of columns movement is a Welch “Made for ICCC” 8-day, time have been repainted in gold. The front and back -and-strike and is running; the calendar is advanc- feet may be original; the carved shell splat is very ing. The backboard is an old replacement, the nice and may be period but probably not original finial is a new replacement correct to style, but to this clock. The unsigned, 8-day, time-and- needs a finish applied. This model typically sells for $400-$600. strike strap brass movement was not tested as the weight cords lack hooks. It is very dirty and 73. $250 likely will need to be cleaned to run efficiently. The embossed pen- Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “Mantel Index”, 1890-1916. As Joel War- dulum bob is period. There is no label so I can’t be sure who made ren writes in his book Ithaca’s Clock Makers, around 1900 American it, but the movement is identical to that in the Birge, Mallory & Co. fashion was all about the Arts and Crafts movement, which focused triple decker #66. This clock does not come with weights, but two almost entirely on oak furniture. ICCC began making a new line of weights that will work in this clock are listed in Parts (item 905). solid oak clocks, and that included the Mantel Index. This clock is $100-$200. 28.5 inches tall with a very old and possibly original finish. Indeed,

12 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures most of this clock appears to be original equip- did not market this model under their own name, although it is dis- ment, including the paper dials, glass, and played prominently on the calendar dial. As in many ICCC clocks hands. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is made after 1900, the movement here was made by the Gilbert Clock signed by E. N. Welch and states “Made for the Co., and the logo can be seen on the back side of the movement. It Ithaca Calendar Clock Co.” The wood block runs 8 days and strikes a cathedral gong on the hours and half- attachment inside the top of the case was used hours. The calendar linkage is unusual; I think it is a later addition, in some early Ithaca’s to stabilize the move- perhaps also the calendar movement, as the calendar hand has a ment; it appears to have been broken and re- modern set screw mount. The clock is running, striking, and the paired with glue and razor blades(!) The move- calendar date and day are advancing. The bob is brass; it should ment is a bit rusty and runs reluctantly, striking probably be nickel, and I think the paper dials are old replacements. slowly on the cathedral gong on the hours and The door glass is likely original and a partial instruction label remains half-hours; the pendulum bob is a replacement. on the back, it is turned to the inside. With no sales records I am The calendar movement is working with the guessing $500-$800. date advancing, but the day and month rollers rub against the dial. The black painted dial board was used in the early editions of this 77. $400 model; the instruction label on the back is a reproduction. This Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “Index”, 1882-1898. model is uncommon, typically selling for $300-$500. ICCC made two Index models, this is the larger of the two, by 2 inches, at 33 inches tall. This one 74. $400 has undergone significant restoration. The case Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 8 Carved Top Shelf is walnut with a clean and slightly glossy finish. Library”, 1878-1902. Another early ICCC model, The top part of the crest and the two side re- 26.5 inches tall in walnut with burled panels on the turns are replacements. The door glass is mod- front and an elaborately carved crest. The finish is ern and the gold lettering is not to specs. Both very clean throughout. The bezels are nickel, the dials are paper, as usual, the time dial an older glasses old, and the dials paper on zinc pans; the replacement with some yellowing and spotting time dial bezel has been remounted to the hinge. while the calendar dial may be original and shows The hands are correct including the Welch calen- some wear and soiling. As noted at the bottom dar hand. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is of the calendar dial, this clock was made for the signed Welch and made for the ICCC. It is running Lynch Brothers who were in competition with the Southern Calen- and striking on a standard wire gong; the pendu- dar Clock Co. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed Welch lum bob and hanger are correct, the bob nickel. and is running and striking, the pendulum is a replacement. Note The weekday roller is advancing but the date hand is sticking. This the large nickel bell on the right in the window. The calendar move- model sells on eBay for from $450-$600. ment is a replacement (note the nickel parts) and while the week- day roller is advancing, the day of the month is not and will need 75. $300 attention. This is an acceptable looking clock and would bring over Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 10 New $1000 were it in more original condition. $400-$600. Farmer’s”, 1880-1917. This was one of ICCC’s most popular clocks, produced in large num- 78. $250 bers. The 26-inch case is walnut veneer, very Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 11 Octagon Poni”, 1883-1890. This clean with a good finish. The top crest is a pro- model is a 3/4-size (19-inch) version of the very popular and inexpen- fessional replacement. The dials are paper on sive “Octagon” and was nearly as popular, but only made for seven zinc, the hands correct, the dial glasses are new. years. The walnut case has an old finish, slightly dull; the door glass The movement is Welch, made for ICCC, 8-day is old, possibly original. The one-piece metal dial is time-and-strike on the hours and half-hours. a replacement with a new antiqued paper print The gong is wire, it should be a cathedral gong that matches the original, including the ICCC name with a half-hour strike movement. The pendu- along with H.B. Horton at the bottom. The hands lum hanger and nickel bob are correct. The calendar date and day are appropriate replacements. The backboard is are advancing but could use some adjustment. This model sells on also a replacement; there is no label. The 8-day eBay for $350-$450. time-and-strike movement is signed by Welch and made for ICCC; it is running and striking on a nickel 76. $450 bell on a new mounting bracket. The strike sticks Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “National”, 1885-1902. every so often. The pendulum bob is a replace- This is a very unusual model; I cannot find any ment. The calendar linkage has been replaced and sales records, but it is discussed in Joel Warren’s the calendar does not advance, although it can be advanced by book Ithaca’s Clock Makers on page 139. It is a hand, so some adjustment will be needed. Note the old English hybrid of the Granger and the No. 10 New lettering on the rollers, as it was originally manufactured. Poni’s Farmer’s, with a dial board over the two dials are uncommon and sell for $300-$400. and a large glass door as on the Granger. It shares the same top piece with the Granger as 79. $750 well but has square rather than canted corners Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “Shelf Steeple”, 1878-1890. This clock is on the base. It is 26 inches tall in walnut. As set off by its pierced dial board that also was used in some of the printed on the paper dials, this clock was made higher-end Ithaca calendar regulators. It is 26 inches tall in dark for the National Calendar Clock Co. Given its walnut with a full front door, original glass, and original fretwork rarity, I don’t think a lot were made or sold. ICCC with one repair in the middle right (see photo of back). The top

13 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures finial is a correct replacement; the mount is not and has just one flea bite on the front right edge; it has a small quite correct. The paper time dial is an old re- drawer to store the key. The top glass pane on the case is missing placement that was varnished to match it to the and will need to be replaced if you wish to use it. It sits on three older calendar dial; both appear to be on the origi- adjustable brass feet (not installed for pictures) and comes with a nal zinc dial boards. The hands are correct on large key and white gloves for handling. This is the largest Harrison both dials. The 8-day time-and-strike movement is Grasshopper clock made and retails for $14,000; it is marked No. 2 of signed E.N. Welch, made for ICCC. The pendulum 20 made. Pick-up or delivery recommended. $7500-$9000. rod mount is missing and the pendulum rod is now hung from the escapement. It works but looks 83. $125 ugly; the clock is running and striking on the nickel H. Welton & Co. 8-Day OG, 1840-1842. The Wel- bell. The calendar movement is dusty with yel- ton brothers, Heman and Hiram, formed a short- lowed rollers. The day of the week advances but lived company in Terrysville initially making the date hand needs adjustment. The Steeple model is not com- wood movements and later brass movements mon; Horton’s sold one in 2016 for $1565, and the wall model in 2018 designed by either Eli Terry or Jason Clemence. for $1100. No sales records in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. $750- This 8-day, weight-driven, brass time-and-strike $1500. movement is unsigned as is typical for Welton and has the escape wheel bridge typical of this 80. $500 maker; it is running and striking on a wire gong. Welch, Spring & Co. “B. W. Wagner Mantel”, 1877-1884. A 26-inch All of the clocks that I can find from this compa- walnut case in clean condition, original finials, both glasses old, re- ny are 30-hour OGs; the label on this clock has a placed paper dials. The time dial is in rough paste-over stating that it is an 8-day clock, and it is the only 8-day condition and the numbering and lettering has Welton & Co. clock that I can find. The flame mahogany veneer is in been strengthened, not quite professionally. excellent shape, cleaned and polished and the tablet has been re- The time hands are correct, the weekday hand painted nicely. The tablet glass is replaced and painted by Lee Davis is a poor replacement; the lower calendar but the dial glass is original. The wooden dial is in good shape with hands are correct. The 8-day time-and-strike a large cut-out to view the brass movement. Hands are replace- movement is signed E.N. Welch, Forestville ments. $125-$200. USA and is running and striking as expected. The lower calendar is advancing. There is old 84. $125 black flocking on the backboard and a worn Manross, Wilcox & Co. 30-hour OG, 1840. This firm only lasted one label on the bottom inside; the B.B. Lewis cal- year and then reformed as Manross Prichard & Co. until 1843. Both endar cover label is missing. Horton’s sold one firms made 30-hour brass movement OG’s. There are no clocks in in 2017 for $600. the Antique Clocks Price Guide listed under Manross Wilcox and only two listed under Manross Prichard. This is 81. $3000 an early brass movement OG, 26 inches tall with English 8-bell fusee bracket clock. This 25-inch mahogany-cased an unsigned 30-hour weight-driven movement. clock shows the retailer on the dial as “T.P. Bedilion ∙ Pittsburgh”; At this time brass dials were popular; this one Bedilion was a jeweler in Pittsburgh PA around has been repainted. The gesso front has been 1890. The gilded ornaments on this clock show repainted as well, and most have; I imagine the some wear consistent with a turn-of-the- original finish did not hold up well. I think the century date of manufacture, but the case is hands are from a slightly later period; both glass- pristine and I would not have guessed it was es have been repainted but may be original. The that old. There is slight wear on the silvered mahogany veneer is fully intact. The time-and- dial and chime setting dials. The heavy brass strike movement is running, driven by two old triple-fusee movement is unsigned with a pat- weights; I replaced the pendulum rod and bob and the length may terned back plate, a large heavy wire gong for need to be adjusted. Good label inside. $125-$175. the hour strike, and eight nested bells on which Westminster chimes plays on the quarter- 85. $250 hours; there is also a setting for a second chime Silas Hoadley miniature timepiece with alarm, that I don’t recognize. You can listen to the 1830. These miniature (25 inch) time and chime here. There is a stamp on the top of the gong mount alarm clocks are highly valued. The 30-hour, “J&F.D”. The clock is running and striking as expected; there are weight-driven wooden movement is a Hoad- working keys for both doors. Certainly the nicest bracket clock I ley design and substitutes an alarm for the have offered this year. $800-$1200. usual hour strike. On this clock the alarm hand is missing. There are three-quarter col- 82. $5900 umns on the front sides and quarter-columns ProClocks “Regal H-I Grasshopper Clock” 2010. in back; these columns have been repainted A large modern novelty table clock, 31 inches and re-bronzed. The eagle splat is also a non- tall (34 inches with the glass case), 23 inches period replacement, as is the dial. And, for across and 17 inches deep. The brass and sil- that matter, so is the tablet, a nice patriotic vered parts are highly polished and precision tablet taken from a later clock. It is cracked cut; the pallets are ruby. It has a fusee move- across the middle and in the upper right cor- ment that runs silently and was easy to get ner. On the positive side, the dial glass is likely original, the move- running and adjust. The base is highly polished ment is original and is running (alarm not tested), and there is a

14 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures decent label inside. The weight has been modified, the claw feet strike; there are no weights with this clock, are likely original, the rear feet not so likely; the pineapple finials are but a set of weights that will work are listed missing. When in good condition these clocks sell easily for over in Parts (item 907). There is a chip out of $1000. $250-$750. the door, upper left, and a toe is missing on the right foot; the top of the eagle wing on 86. $900 the splat was broken off and reglued. The Hiram Welton “Improved Time-Piece with label was wallpapered over but later uncov- Alarm”, ca. 1840. This is an early Hiram ered. $150-$250. Welton clock and notable for its miniature size (24 inches). Welton took over the Eli 89. $100 Terry Jr. business in 1841 but it failed by H. Hart & Son column & splat shelf clock, ca. 1845. It is unclear if this clock was made in 1835. Henry Hart worked out of Goshen, CT that period or prior to that in the 1830’s. for only a brief time before moving to Illi- He went on to make brass movement nois. There is one Hart & Son clock listed in clocks, and these are the ones you find the Antique Clocks Price Guide and two listed under H. Hart by him- most often by him, and his brother self; all are stenciled column and splat clocks, Heman. Note the label “Made and sold at as found here. The lower glass is an old re- Terrysville, Plymouth, Con.” This uses a 30 placed mirror; the dial glass is also an old re- -hour time and alarm movement that is placement with old glass. The stenciling is running. As best I can tell these clocks original, as is the splat which has been broken were grain-painted rather than veneered; there are a couple of ex- and repaired. The wooden dial is clean but amples on LiveAuctioneers of similar grain-painted or decorated plain; there are claw feet in front (missing toe time-and-alarm clocks by Mr. Welton. As you can see, unfortunately on the right) and replacement turned back there is no veneer and no grain painting on this clock. The columns feet. The cleaned 30-hour wooden movement and splat would also have been painted or bronzed; it appears the is running and striking but there are no columns here were originally white based on the remaining paint. weights; weights that will work in this clock are Both glasses are old and perhaps original, based on the putty; the listed in Parts, item 908. Label has some losses tablet was repainted by Tom Moberg. The wood dial appears origi- but the important stuff is there. $100-$150. nal and is in pretty good shape; the hands and the alarm ring also appear to be original. There is a good label inside that matches 90. $250 labels found on other Welton miniature timepieces. The three sales Atkins & Downs 8-day column & splat, 1831-1832. A short-lived three on LiveAuctioneers were in 2011 and all were for over $2000 (one -some (Rollin and Irenus Atkins, Anson Downes) in Bristol CT making sold at Tim’s Inc. Auctions for $6500), but all retained the distinctive wooden works clocks for George Mitchell, as grain painting characteristic of Welton’s early clocks. We’ll have to indicated on the label. This one stands 33 inch- settle for less here. $900-$1200. es tall with original bronze stenciling on the columns and splat, original dial, hands, and dial 87. $425 glass. Note the brightly painted dial. The tab- Mitchell & Atkins carved column & splat, let is repainted on modern glass. The overall 1831-1835. A 29-inch by 17-inch case with finish is a bit rough and dirty but not unac- carved side columns, a carved eagle crest, ceptable – it could clean up if desired. Very front claw feet and turned rear feet, all nice label inside, a cleaned 8-day time-and- original. The only thing missing are the strike wooden movement that is running easily carved pineapples atop the chimneys. but the strike side needs adjustment. No More original: Both glasses, the tablet, weights with this clock but two weights that the ivory escutcheon, the dial board, the will work here are listed in Parts, item 906. A hands, and the 30-hour wooden time-and- nice example. $250-$500. strike movement. Note the well- decorated, clean dial board and the intact tablet. I hung the old weights but it didn’t want to run, although the strike side works but needs adjustment. The label is dark but complete, behind a plastic sheet. A period pendulum bob is included with a crank; some interesting service inscriptions on the back of the dial. Sure, these clocks are common, but this is an out- Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for standing, original example. $450-$600. updates and corrections, and

88. $125 additional photos! Riley Whiting column & splat shelf clock, 1828-1835. Mr. Whiting died in 1835 and his business eventually became the Gilbert Clock Co. This 30-inch shelf clock has had extensive renovation: The ea- gle splat is modern, possibly the pineapple finials, both glasses are replacements, the tablet repainted. The half-columns on the sides have been stripped of their bronzing; the minute hand is too short. The 30-hour wooden movement has been cleaned and will run and

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91. $100 before stopping, and the strike is missing the wire gong on the Unknown 30-hour column & splat shelf clock, ca. backboard. Looks like it could use a serious cleaning. The cuckoo is 1830. The lack of a label prevents us from easily also very slow. This style of shelf cuckoo is not common; I found determining the maker of this early “bronzed one example on LiveAuctioneers that sold at Fontaine’s last year for looking glass” clock, but Boardman & Wells made $600. $500-$1000. a great many of these clocks and parts. The “groaner” wooden movement tells us it was an 95. $125 early manufacture (note the repair to some teeth Chauncey Jerome “Patent Case”, ca. 1857. on the right side). In addition to lacking a label, Jerome patented the case, rather unusual at this clock has other issues: The bronzed columns the time, and it can be found in several sizes; are probably an old repaint (they do show wear other manufacturers also used it. This one is 27 and age), the splat is a modern replacement, the inches tall with a 30-hour unsigned brass time- mirror an old replacement, the two pulleys are metal, there is some and-strike, weight-driven movement. It is run- missing veneer on the base, back right side and chimneys; the dial ning and striking as expected. The rosewood- fits but may be a replacement, the wire gong should be an iron bell, veneered case has been cleaned and looks and the hands are incorrect. I hung some groaner weights (item sharp, both glasses are period if not original. I 909 in Parts) and the time side ran reluctantly but the strike side did particularly like the lithograph of P.T. Barnum’s not. Certainly room for improvement here. $100-$200. home, “Iranistan”, which was built in 1848 in Bridgeport CT and burned down nine years 92. $1000 later. The painted metal dial has had some slightly-less-than- Wm. Ballard bracket timepiece, ca. 1830. A 17-inch professional touch-up around the chapter ring. The hands are not peaked case veneered in flame mahogany from quite matched; the label is missing pieces but sufficient to establish the early 1800’s with no significant chips or cracks. manufacture. $150-$250. The signed dial was repainted by The Dial House, the dial glass and hands original. Hoops on the 96. $400 sides, brass ball feet and glass in the back door. E.N. Welch “Arditi”, 1884-1893. This calendar clock used Daniel The heavy brass plate fusee, time-only movement Gale’s last calendar patent (1885, as stamped on is unsigned but typical of Ballard’s design. It is the calendar movement) and was manufactured running after professional servicing. It sits on its almost entirely by Welch. Just over 27 inches tall matching 12-inch bracket shelf, a rare find. There in walnut with an old clean finish and old if not are keys for the front and back doors. Clocks the original paper dials. The time hands may be from this maker sell for upwards of $2000. $1500- substitutes, but the calendar hands appear to be $2500. original. The door glass is also original, held in with putty. There are instructions inside and 93. $1000 labels on the back; the movement is signed English fusee bracket clock, ca. 1830. This is Welch and is running and striking on the hours probably also a Ballard clock based on the move- and half-hours. The calendar is advancing. A ment and similar clocks online. The dial has very nice example, particularly if you like original- been repainted and no maker/marketer/location ity. Horton’s sold a couple of these in the last few years for around was added; the dial glass appears to be original. $450. $400-$500. The 20-inch case, veneered in mahogany, has carved leaves across the arched top and inlaid 97. $750 brass across the bottom and both side half- E.N. Welch & Co. “Patti No. 1”, ca. 1880. The 19- columns. Hoop handles on both sides and two inch rosewood case is in spectacular condition, side glasses and a glass in the rear door to view clean and polished. The three glasses are old, the the unsigned early 1800’s (note the movement pillars) brass double- door glass having lost some of the gilded decora- fusee movement. There is a heavy pendulum and a steel bell; the tion along the bottom. There is a matte finish clock is running and striking, but a bit out of plumb. There are keys dial with two correct Patti hands, a shiny nickel for the rear door and the sash; it sits on four brass ball feet that bell and a sandwich glass pendulum. The interior allow leveling. There are some cracks and repairs to the 190-year- of the case is flocked, there is a good label on the old veneer on the top and right side. Like #92, this is a high-quality back. The 8-day Patti movement is running and early English bracket clock. $1500-$2500. striking effortlessly. Horton’s sold one in similar condition last year for $840. $800-$1000. 94. $500 Black Forest double-fusee shelf cuckoo, ca. 1880? 98. $900 An 18.5-inch highly polished mahogany case with Ansonia “Major”, ca. 1885. A very rare mirrorside burled insets in front bearing painted leaf and fruit wall clock. This model is shown in Ly’s book on Anso- decorations. The arched top is grain-painted. The nia clocks on pages 186-187; an early form had a door glass is old, the dial porcelain, the fancy different base style. The walnut case is 29 inches hands likely original. Each side has a small door to long with an old and possibly original finish. The door view the brass fusee movement mounted on a glass and mirrors are original; in fact, everything is wooden frame. At the top back are the whistle original, even down to the black paper backing in- openings for the cuckoo; the bird is original and is side. The signed Ansonia 8-day, time-and-strike calling on the hours. The movement will run for a minute or two movement is running just fine, striking the hours on

16 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures the signed cathedral gong. A double-barrel pendulum and a signed strike movement is running and striking on the hour. An alarm is beat scale complete the ensemble. Remains of a label on the back. present but untested. Good Beals label inside. $750-$1000. R.O. Schmitt’s sold one in 2017 for $1800; it is the only sale in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. $1000-$1800. 103. $500 E.N. Welch ripple-front steeple, ca. 1860. This is a 99. $200 later ripple-front likely acquired from J.C. Brown Ansonia “Chile”, ca. 1906. A 25-inch carved by Welch in 1855 when Brown went bankrupt. (routed) wood case described as “Dark Wood” in The rosewood veneer is excellent, with a deep, the catalog, likely refinished with an appropriate lustrous finish. The finials are likely later replace- dark stain. This looks like a pressed wood case but ments and both glasses are modern replace- it is a step above that, as can be seen by a close ments as well; the tablet is cut glass. The dial has examination. The door glass is a modern replace- been repainted, the hands are incorrect. There is ment, the signed paper dial very old and the hands a very dark, unreadable green label inside; green correct. The signed, 8-day, time-and-strike move- labels are found in other Welch ripple-front ment is running and striking accordingly on a clocks from this period. The 8-day time-and- signed wire gong. No label, nice pendulum. Un- strike movement is signed Welch and is running common. $200-$300. and striking on the wire gong; the alarm is un- tested. I can find no other examples of Welch ripple-front steeples 100. $750 in Ly’s book on Welch clocks, nor in the Antique Clocks Price Guide; Seth Thomas “Garfield”, ca. 1883. This classic, the only ripple-front examples I can find are round gothics weight-driven shelf clock is 30 inches high, (beehives) and four-column gothics (onion tops), making this stee- named after the second US president to be ple rather unusual. $600-$900. assassinated, in 1881. The case is walnut in an old if not original finish and with a nice amount 104. $600 of “patina”. The glass is original, the dial re- Forestville Mfg. Co. ripple-front steeple, 1842- painted long ago; the hands are original, as is 1849. A 19.5-inch ripple-front steeple from J.C. the pendulum and bob. The dial trim, weights, Brown. Good rosewood veneer on the sides, a and damascened pendulum bob are nickel- less-common ripple style on the front. Both plated; the weights and bob could use a bit of glasses are old, the tablet lithograph showing polish and the weights do not match and I do the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. not believe are Seth Thomas issue. A decent label inside on the The painted dial is old but I don’t see evidence of bottom, no date on the back of the case. The movement is correct a signature; the hands are correct/original. The to this model and is running but would benefit from service. Hor- 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed J.C. ton’s sold this clock in 2017 for $1525. $800-$1200. Brown, Forestville CT and is running and striking as required. The label is protected behind plas- 101. $1500 tic film. A nice example. $600-$900. Atkins “Parlor No. 1”, ca. 1855. This Parlor No. 1 was likely made by Atkins, Whiting & Co. in the 105. $600 early 1850’s but, as is typical, there is no label. Forestville Mfg. Co. ripple-front steeple, 1842- The unusual case is veneered in rosewood and 1849. A dark but well-polished finish on this 20- stands 18 inches tall. The dial glass is original inch ripple-front sharp gothic. The finial posts and in good condition, the lower door glass is a are wooden screws, the door handle ivory/bone, modern replacement and would originally have and both glasses are old and likely original; note been a mirror. Both door handles are ivory, the the period cut-glass tablet. The painted dial is dial has been repainted by The Dial House, the likely original with expected chipping along the hands original with some repairs. The 30-day, round time-only edges and no evidence of a signature. The movement is unique to Irenus Atkins and is driven by a Joseph Ives hands are old replacements. The 8-day, time- Type III wagon spring mechanism with the original chains. It is run- and-strike movement is signed “Forestville ning without problem. Horton’s sold two in 2019 for $1750 and M.F.G. Co., Bristol CT” and is running and strik- $2140. $1600-$2000. ing without complaint. A good label inside. $600-$900. 102. $750 J.C. Brown ripple-front steeple, 1842-1849. This clock was made for 106. $500 J.J. Beals & Co. by J.C. Brown & Co. (Forestville Forestville Mfg. Co. ripple-front beehive, 1842- Mfg. Co.). A 20-inch ripple-front steeple in rose- 1849. A 19-inch round gothic ripple-front. Good wood or mahogany veneer with a deep rubbed mahogany veneer on the sides, with a crack where finish – just beautiful. Note the unusual ripple it curves on the right side. Both glasses likely orig- pattern used. The cone finials have wooden inal, the milk-glass tablet having considerable loss- screw bases, one has some chips off the side es from zealous cleaning. Nonetheless, the center (turned to the back). Both glasses are old, the image, surrounded by the saying “Time cuts down cut glass tablet is period. The dial was likely re- all both great and small”, remains clear and the painted some time ago, it bears the J.J. Beals image is taken from a lesson in the 1811 New Eng- signature at the top. The hands are period but land Primer for school children. The original dial slight mismatches. The signed, 8-day, time-and- has been repainted and is signed J. C. Brown, the

17 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures hands original and the hour hand repaired. The 8-day, time-and- been refinished but not completely cleaned. Both strike movement is signed “Forestville M.F.G. Co., Bristol CT” and is glasses are newer, and the gold lettering and trim running and striking properly. A good label inside. $600-$800. has been touched up. The lower glass is in the Ingraham style. The dial is new glossy paper with 107. $450 the Ingraham logo pasted on nicely; the dial ring E.N. Welch ripple-front beehive, ca. 1860. A 19 has been painted gold. The hands are Ingraham. -inch round gothic ripple-front obtained from The 8-day, time-only, signed movement is running J.C. Brown when his business closed in 1855. without problem. No label. $150-$250. The mahogany veneer is good, the ripple clean with a nice finish. The glasses are old/ 112. $250 original, but the lithograph tablet has lost the E. Ingraham “Western Union” calendar store image of Buckingham Palace. The dial is origi- clock, ca. 1907. A 36-inch oak nal with the original paint, badly worn and store clock with a cherry stain giving it a very nice touched up in numerous places. The hands tone. Both glasses are old, much of the dial sur- are original. The Welch-signed 8-day, time- round paint has chipped off but could be easily and-strike movement is running without prob- replaced and is not noticeable because the back- lem. The is a good green Welch label on the ground is black. The lower glass is in the Ingraham bottom noting the clock came from the “late J. C. Brown Forestville style. The dial paper is new, the time hands are Manufactory”. $500-$700. new and correct to style, the calendar hand is slightly off. The signed time-only, 8-day move- 108. $250 ment is running efficiently and the calendar is ad- E. Ingraham “Northwestern” calendar store vancing. The pendulum bob is correct, no label. clock, ca. 1910. A 39-inch clean oak case with This is a nice example. $250-$400. two original glasses and possibly the original signed paper dial in good aged condition. The 113. $250 hands also appear original, as does the pendu- Waterbury Clock Co. “Louviers”, ca. 1915. lum. There is a small candle-burn(?) on the lower A crystal regulator movement in a mahog- right. “Regulator” in gold lettering across the any case, 9.25 inches tall and 16.5 inches lower glass, in Ingraham-style lettering. A small wide, with beveled glasses in the front dark label on the back. The 8-day time-only, and back doors. The dial is porcelain in a signed movement is running and the calendar gilt bezel with fancy hands. The 8-day, advancing. All you could ask for. $250-$400. time and half-hour strike movement is running and striking nicely on a small cathedral gong, regulated by a false mercury two-vial pendu- 109. $250 lum. No issues with the case or glasses. An elegant little mantel E. Ingraham “Northwestern” calendar store clock. I found one sale on LiveAuctioneers in 2017 for $475. $250- clock, ca. 1910. A 39-inch very clean oak case with $450. two old glasses and an old signed paper dial in good condition on a tin dial pan. The hands are 114. $100 original, as is the pendulum. “Regulator” in gold E. Ingraham “Grecian”, ca. 1869. A very popular lettering across the lower glass, in Ingraham-style model that came in a variety of styles, 14.5 inches lettering. No label on this clock. The 8-day time- tall in what appears to be a mahogany veneer, only, signed movement is running and the calen- dark and in need of a bit of cleaning. The glass is dar advancing. All you could ask for – again. $250 original, with the original putty, the dial original -$400. with some chipping and some reinforcement of the numbering. The hands are correct. The signed 110. $175 8-day, time-and-strike movement is running and Sessions regulator calendar store clock, ca. 1908. striking nicely on an iron bell. A green label inside. The Sessions Clock Co. made several store clock $150-$250. models with very similar styles that I cannot differentiate (see Ly, Sessions Clocks, pages 70- 115. $800 72); this is one of them. It is 38.5 inches tall in E. Howard & Co. “No. 70”, ca. 1923. A 31.5-inch black walnut case refinished oak with a dark walnut stain. Both with a dark but polished finish. A bit of abrasion to the front lower glasses are replacements, the upper glass is old edge of the base and the upper inside edge of and repainted, the lower glass is new and not the tablet, but neither is particularly noticeable. correct for a Sessions regulator. The dial is new Both glasses are original, with some touch-up to glossy paper on a tin dial pan, the hands also are the backing on the tablet. The 12-inch dial might th not correct for Sessions. The signed, 8-day, time- be early 20 century original, with a scuff at the only calendar movement is running and the cal- 7. Hands are original. Movement is signed, run- endar advancing. Pendulum bob is proper. No ning, with original pendulum stick and dama- label. A good-looking decorator clock. $175-$250. scened bob. There is a No. 70 weight, possibly a replaced weight shield, and a pendulum bob tie- 111. $150 down. No label. Horton’s has sold walnut ex- E. Ingraham “Western Union” store clock, ca. 1911. A 36.5-inch oak amples of this model for from $1000 to $1875 of store clock regulator, a bit beat up, with restorations. The case has late. $1000-$1500.

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116. $400 121. $100 Seth Thomas “Regulator No. 2”, ca. 1870. A very E. Ingraham “Domino”, ca. 1886. A 16-inch black dark finish on this case, making identification of the lacquer wood case with an architectural design. veneer difficult – I think it is either mahogany or This has always been a popular clock. The finish walnut. Both glasses are modern, the painted dial has the expected chips along the edges and cor- is old with considerable wear and some chipping; ners and could use a coat of wax to shine; note the hands are correct. The signed movement is the incised designs on the sides, lined in gold. The appropriate but will not run and will need service. door glass is original, the paper dial old and yel- Cleaning would be a good start. The weight, pen- low, the hands old but not as shown in the cata- dulum stick and bob are correct. No label. You log drawing. The signed 8-day time-and-strike movement is running could do worse. $400-$600. with some coaxing, striking the hours and half-hours on a cathedral gong. A partial label on the back. Shown on page 212 of Ly’s book 117. $250 on Ingraham clocks. $100-$200. Ansonia “Victoria”, ca. 1920. This is an uncommon clock from Ansonia, I can find no sales records but it 122. $100 is listed in Ly’s book on Ansonia clocks on page 219. E. Ingraham “Admiral Dewey”, ca. 1899. This is The solid oak case is just over 34 inches in length, the the most common of the Spanish-American War book calls for 36 inches; the base appears to be miss- commemorative clocks produced at the turn of ing some bottom trim. They also made a smaller the twentieth century. In pressed oak, 23 inches version of this model called the Panama. Both glass- tall and very clean. This clock has the original es are original, the lower glass is beveled. The porce- door glass, with some wear, and the original lain dial is signed and shows light wear, the hands are commemorative pendulum, artfully colored, and correct. The signed 8-day, time-and-strike movement a signed gong base. The paper dial is a signed is running and striking a cathedral gong on the hours replacement. The 8-day time-and-strike move- and half-hours; the strike is very rapid and needs ad- ment is signed and running, striking a wire gong on the hours and justment. Note the carvings in the case. $250-$500. half-hours. Note that the pressed wood is covered in patriotic sym- bols including the flag, cannon balls, cannons, and stars. $100-$200. 118. $100 Seth Thomas “Boston”, ca. 1884. A city series clock, 123. $100 21.5 inches tall in dark walnut with considerable E. Ingraham “Admiral Dewey”, ca. 1899. A second patina. The door glass is original, the painted and example of this model, in very similar condition. signed dial is original, the hands are original. The 8- Like #122, this one has the original door glass in day time-and-strike ST lyre movement is running good condition, showing a battleship and Ameri- and striking on a nickel bell, there is a proper pen- can flags; a matched pendulum bob (not color- dulum. A black ST label on the bottom inside, noth- enhanced), and an older paper dial with some ing on the back. Solid. $100-$200. soiling. The movement is signed and running and striking. Horton’s sold one in 2016 for $250. $100- 119. $100 $200. Seth Thomas “Atlanta”, 1908. A city series clock, 19.5 inches tall in walnut veneer with rosewood veneer around the front, further 124. $400 highlighted with gilt designs. The door glass is old Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 4 Hanging Office”, with a gold stencil, the dial in a brass relief bezel is 1869-1918. A classic office calendar clock, one of old paper with the ST name. It shows a lot of ICCC’s most popular models. This one is in oak with wear. The ST 8-day, time-and-strike movement is a medium stain and a closed dial (no view of the running and striking the hours and half-hours on a movement). The dials are old paper with some cathedral gong. The pendulum bob is ST issue but wear, the hands are correct. Both glasses are old shows lots of wear. There is an ST label inside on with wooden retaining rings rather than brass, indi- the bottom, and the date is stamped on the back cating that this example was made later in the pro- of the case. This is an attractive clock. $150-$250. duction cycle. The time-only 15-day, double-spring LaPort-Hubble movement (unsigned) is running 120. $100 without issue, and the calendar is advancing. These clocks typically E.N. Welch “Turret”, ca. 1900. Several manufacturers produced a sell for around $450. $400-$500. Turret model, including Welch, although it is not shown in the Welch Clocks book by Mr. Ly. R.O. Schmitt’s suggests it 125. $600 was made by Welch for the American Clock Co. in Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No. 9”, ca. New York; as there is no label here, we can only 1889. A second example here of the Fashion No. 9 go on the signed movement and replaced paper made by the New Haven Clock Co. The case is dial. The 21-inch walnut case has a polished finish made of hardwood stained dark walnut; the finials with a new door glass (“Time is Money”) and a differ from the standard Fashion finials and are new signed paper dial, as noted. The 8-day time- also found on the Ithaca Fashion (#30). The glass and-strike, signed movement is running and strik- in the door is original with the original Fashion ing a wire gong on the hours, with a double- lettering. Black unlabeled paper dials were used, barrel pendulum. The alarm is hooked up but not as found here; the numbering is a bit worn, and tested. No recent sales records. $100-$200. the brass hands are tarnished. The 8-day time-and-

19 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures strike movement is signed with the New Haven logo. It is running running, a bit on the fussy side; the pendulum bob shows very faint and striking a rich deep gong on the hours and half-hours; the strike damascening and the weight is correct. There is a black label on the is a bit recalcitrant. The simple calendar is advancing. There is a bottom of the case and a beat scale too. Looks perfect unless you good white label inside with instructions and stating that the clock inspect the bezel up close. $500-$650. was made for the SCCC by the New Haven Clock Co. Horton’s sold three of this model since 2017 for $777, $860, and $1075. $750- 131. $500 $1000. Seth Thomas “Regulator No. 2”, ca. 1890. This is the early case (note the base) but a later edition move- 126. $250 ment. The walnut veneer on the 36-inch case is per- Gustav Becker 2-weight Vienna Regulator, 1880- fect, including on the bezel; both glasses are old and 1885. A 43-inch two-weight Vienna in a light-colored probably original. The signed metal dial is chipping wood in excellent condition. I believe all three glass- badly and is ready for repainting. The signed, time- es are original; the two-part porcelain dial is signed only movement is running without issue, the pendu- (Karl Klose, Vöslau), a town south of Vienna. The lum bob is plain brass, the weight is correct. The brass shell weights are engraved, the top and bot- beat scale is mounted upside-down. No label. $500- tom case-pieces are carved and original, the finials $650. are likely replacements, well-matched. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed Gustav Becker 132. $500 with the serial number 488559, dating it to 1880- David L. Williams banjo, 1840-1871. Williams was one 1885. It is running and striking a chime rod on the of the clockmakers of North Attleboro; he worked hours and half-hours. A very nice example. $250- in partnership with George Hatch and also with Silas $500. Aldrich, making many banjos in the 1860’s. The hardwood case is just over 32 inches tall with out- 127. $200 standing rosewood graining on all surfaces; at first, I Altdeutsch spring-driven Vienna regulator, ca. 1880. was sure it was a rosewood-veneered case. Note A nice spring-driven Vienna in mostly original condi- that Williams’ initials are stamped into the front tion, 36 inches tall. Neither the case nor movement edge of the bottom board, typical for his clocks. All are signed, although there is a serial number on the three glasses are original; the dial glass is held in movement. The door glass and the bottom finial are with what appears to be the original putty, the replacements. The porcelain dial is old with little throat glass may hold the original painting and gild- wear. It is running and striking on the hours and half- ing; the tablet has been nicely repainted but is un- hours on a wire gong. $200-$300. signed. The original zinc dial has been repainted and is held in place by four screws in the original holes, as was typi- 128. $400 cal for Williams. The pinned movement is signed “RSJ” and I don’t French Boulle portico, ca. 1880. A beautifully or- know who that maker is; if you know please let me know. Note the nate black lacquer portico with brass, shell, and slight cutout on the right side of the keyhole of the pendulum. It tortoise shell inlay, 22 inches tall. There is an ornate will run for a while and then stops, so it will need service; I do not gilded brass sash around the porcelain dial signed know if the movement is original to the clock. The weight has a “Dellon Freres” in Paris. The back of the 8-day, time wooden plug in the middle so it can be bolted down to the back- and half-hour strike pendule de Paris movement is board for transport; the weight shield is long gone. The eagle finial also signed, and the gilded pendulum matches the on top may not be original. $500-$1000. sash. Yes, there are missing pieces of inlay and the dial has been repaired at the winding arbors, but 133. $300 overall, this clock is in excellent condition. It is run- North Attleboro-style square-bottom banjo, ca. 1850. ning and striking without issue. $400-$800. The square-bottom case of this 31-inch mahogany ban- jo is in the North Attleboro style. Other characteristics 129. $500 include the iron dial and iron weight, wooden side Seth Thomas “Regulator No. 2”, ca. 1890. An early arms (probably replacements here), triangular glue oak case, refinished, with two new glasses and a re- blocks in the box, brass J-hooks for the doors, and the painted dial. The pendulum bob may be new as well, pendulum style. The case is a bit beat up and could and the weight has a replaced hook. The early use a good cleaning; the dial glass is old, possibly origi- weight-driven movement is signed and running. nal, the throat glass has been rebacked, and tablet is There is an old white label on the bottom of the case. repainted on new glass. The painted dial is almost $500-$650. certainly the original paint, with fading, soiling, crack- ing, and chipping. The movement is unsigned, as is 130. $500 typical of this group (which includes Horace Tifft), and is running Seth Thomas “Regulator No. 2”, ca. 1890. A 36-inch with minor coaxing. The top finial is an improper replacement. case with veneered walnut in fine shape except on $400-$600. the bezel, which has been stripped of the veneer and stained to match. Both glasses are likely original, the 134. $200 dial very old paint, possibly original with original North Attleboro-style square-bottom banjo, ca. 1850. A second ex- hands. The time-only movement is the early version ample (with #133) of the square-bottom banjo; this one also appears used in the No. 2 regulator (see page 277 of Ly, Seth to be of North Attleboro origin. The mahogany case has flat bev- Thomas Clocks & Movements, Vol. 1); it is signed and eled edging and is dark and in need of cleaning. All three glasses

20 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures appear to be original, with the original paint, with chipped. $150-$250. some chipping, lifting, and fading. The side arms may be replacements and the top finial certainly is. The dial 139. $100 is new, the hands incorrect replacements, and the lead Waterbury “Vesta” figural, ca. 1905. Vesta was the Roman god of weight is modern. There is an old jeweler’s label from hearth and home (Hestia in Greek). The Boston inside. The movement is unsigned and unwill- clock is 12 inches high and 15 inches across in ing to run for more than about a minute. Work will be a good bronze finish. Note that Vesta is needed to get this guy up to snuff. $200-$400. holding her pen in her hand. The ivory dial has a gilt center and sash holding a flat bev- 135. $250 eled glass; the hands are correct. The round North Attleboro-style square-bottom 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed; I banjo, ca. 1850. A third example of this style of early can’t get it to run for more than a minute, production banjo, this one with carved side-arms and but I think it has been sitting for too long. It unusual glasses. An old and likely original painted will strike the cathedral gong (hour and half-hour) when I move the iron dial in good shape, held in place with L-turns, and hands. Better than average condition. $150-$300. period hands. I have not seen this style of glasses before and assume they are old repaints. The 8-day 140. $100 time-only movement is unsigned, as is typical, driven Seth Thomas crystal regulator, ca. 1910. This model is not shown in by an iron weight. The pendulum bob is period, the Ly’s books on crystal regulators, but the dial and eagle finial is old. The clock is running without issue. movement are signed. It has a polished brass $250-$500. finish that is still in good shape although the top is dull. There is a good porcelain standard dial and 136. $125 four beveled glasses with no chips. There are a Junghans calendar wall clock, ca. 1880. A 26-inch few scratches to the front glass. The clock is run- calendar wall clock in oak with a clean finish and ning and striking on the hours and half-hours on a modest ornamentation. The dial is painted, with a cathedral gong; these clocks held 8- or 15-day few chips but clean and with the Junghans logo. movements. $150-$250. The hands are mismatched, the dial glass is old. There are the remains of a label on the back, the 8- 141. $200 day time and half-hour strike movement has the Seth Thomas “Chime Clock No. 1 Special”, ca. 1911. A mahogany Junghans logo and is running and striking on a adamantine finish on a 13.25-inch tall by 15- wire gong; the calendar is advancing. Looks all inch wide cabinet case with an ivory dial. It original to me, except perhaps the bottom finial. $150-$250. plays Westminster chimes on the quarter hours on “four patented resonated bells”. 137. $250 And boy, it sounds great. The dial is signed Friedrich Mauthe Berliner wall clock, ca. 1905. An and has an unfortunately noticeable hairline; impressive 45-inch walnut case with considerable the case is practically flawless. There is a flat ornamentation, including a horse at the top. Every- replacement glass in the bezel, it should be thing looks original, the porcelain and brass re- convex. There is a slide switch just above the pousse dial is clean and bright, the shell pendulum ‘6’ on the dial that allows you to turn off the chimes. The movement bob bright. There are two doors, one for the dial is signed and running, striking on schedule. This model sells regular- with a bowed glass and the second for the pendu- ly on eBay for around $250. $200-$300. lum, behind a flat glass. The 8-day time and half-hour strike movement shows the Mauthe logo from 1902; 142. $100 it is running and striking on a wire gong. A very nice Seth Thomas “Windsor No. 3” ca. 1917. Like me, example. $250-$500. you probably haven’t seen this clock before. It is not the Seth Thomas “Dana”, which always had an 138. $100 adamantine finish. I can find no sales records for Waterbury Clock Co. green onyx crystal regulator, ca. 1910. I can’t this pretty little clock. It is shown in Ly’s book, Vol. find this one in either of Ly’s two volumes on Waterbury clocks. The 1 on Seth Thomas clocks on page 507. An 11-inch movement is signed and the dial is signed, so we’ll just have to as- mahogany case with a “dull rubbed finish”, a “dull sume it was an uncommon or short-lived model. It is 11.25 inches tall gilt sash and mat” dial behind a convex glass. The in green onyx with typical cracks and discoloration for its age. ST No. 89 movement runs 8 days and strikes the hours and half- There is a brass ornament on the front base hours on a cathedral gong. Apparently refinished in 1983, and it and four beveled glasses, with the front right looks and sounds great. $100-$200. plate chipped badly in the lower left corner. The two-part porcelain dial is signed and has 143. $200 numerous cracks in the chapter ring. The Seth Thomas “Chime Clock No. 7” ca. 1915. This hands are matched and the visible escapement Sonora chime strikes on four bells and, as you has ruby pallets; the signed movement has a would expect, sounds great. Westminster chimes rack and snail strike on the hour and half-hour on the quarter hours and counts the hours on all on a cathedral gong; it is running and striking four bells on the hour. The adamantine case is as expected. The pendulum vials are missing 13.25 inches tall and 11 inches wide, with no chips their false mercury weights and one vial is or scrapes. The silvered convex dial shows some

21 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures wear and sits behind a convex beveled glass. The hands are correct, a great label. $200-$400. the signed movement is running and chiming as expected. You can silence the chimes with a slider bar on the right. This model sells on 148. $200 eBay for around $250. $200-$300. Erastus Hodges carved column & splat shelf clock, 1825-1837. Hodg- es succeeded Norris North in Torrington; you can 144. $1800 see a bit of his name and the town on the re- Welch, Spring & Co. “Patti No. 2” ca. 1886. A mains of the label in this clock. The case is 29.5 highly sought-after model, just 10.5 inches tall in a inches tall with carved columns and a modern rosewood-veneered case with side glasses and carved eagle splat. I believe the claw feet, and numerous turnings, nubbins, and finials. This one perhaps the turned feet in back are modern re- has a patina of age; the glasses are good, the dial placements as well. The dial glass is old but is paper in reasonable shape with two proper not puttied in; the tablet is touched up exten- hands. It holds an 8-day double-wind Patti move- sively and is not very good, but that glass has ment that will run but I can’t keep it in beat. It not been out of the door. The wooden dial will need some attention if you want it to run steady. The pendu- board shows some peeling along the edges but lum is correct and there is a very good label on the back; a small is good otherwise. The Torrington east-west Patti key is included. AAC sold one in January for $2005. $1900- movement looks to be in good shape but is not $2100. mounted to the case, and so I didn’t hang the weights. This is clear- ly a case designed for a Torrington movement – note the cutout on 145. $125 the top left for the lever to advance the strike. There is no pendu- Ansonia “Regulator A Calendar”, ca. 1901. This lum rod, but those can be obtained from TimeSavers and fitted easi- model came in ash or black walnut; this is ash. The ly. $250-$500. finish is good, the case is clean; there is veneer around the lower door and pendulum drop. The 149. $150 dial bezel was not veneered. The lower glass is John Birge & Co. triple decker, ca. 1848. A mar- original, the dial glass replaced. The paper dial is velously refurbished 32.5-inch triple decker with old, toned, and unsigned. The three hands are cor- a great finish over perfect veneer, two new rect. The time-only 8-day movement is signed and tablets, an old dial glass, and a new metal dial. running, the calendar is advancing. There is a label Note that the hands are mismatched. The strap on the inside back wall. $150-$225. brass movement has had some work done and is running and striking, driven by two old 8-day 146. $300 weights. There are wooden pulley covers on Wadsworths & Turners pillar & scroll, 1829-1831. A short-lived firm in top and a dark label inside. A great decorator Litchfield CT making pillar and scroll clocks after Martins Lounsbury clock. $150-$300. left the original group. I cannot find any sales by these two in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. It stands 31 inches 150. $200 tall with the wooden finials, with good veneer Forestville Mfg Co. triple decker, 1835-1839. A showpiece triple and two old glasses. The tablet has been re- decker from JC Brown’s company. Perfect ve- painted onto the original image, and I think the neer and finish on this 32-inch case with two putty has been replaced on both glasses. The new tablets on new glass and one old dial glass. wooden finials are likely replacements, as I can- The wooden dial has been repainted, the hands not find any examples from these makers are period. The movement is signed and run- where wooden finials are used. There is a sup- ning, striking on the wire gong, driven by two port board added at the back of the base to old 8-day weights; there is an excellent label support the feet. The wooden dial is a bit dark inside and tin dust covers over the pulleys on but no significant paint loss. The 30-hour wood- top. Not a thing to complain about here. $200- en works movement was reluctant to run and I $400. didn’t press it. Weights included, but the pen- dulum rod needs to be adjusted. An excellent label inside. $300- 151. $100 $600. Clarke, Gilbert & Co. OG, ca. 1841. These two revived the Riley Whit- ing business according to American Clockmakers & Watchmakers, 147. $200 making 1-day OG clocks. This is another showpiece clock with per- Birge, Mallory & Co. Empire, 1838-1843. A beauti- fect flame mahogany veneer, a great finish, and fully refurbished triple-decker, 35.5 inches tall. an outstanding original tablet, sealed to prevent The mahogany veneer is bright and complete, the further losses (note some losses in the middle). three glasses replaced, with the tablets painted The contoured metal dial is still bright and has by Lee Davis. The top-most piece is a replace- been lacquered; the hands are period. The ment made from old wood and a piece of trim is pinned brass 1-day movement is unsigned, run- missing from the right side. The wooden dial ning and striking with two old OG weights. An shows some wear from excessive cleaning, the excellent label inside from these makers. It hands replacements. The brass strap movement stands 26 inches tall. Only three listings in An- with side-arm is running and striking; note the tique Clocks Price Guide, none of which were BM&Co stamp on the right side of the cross- OGs. $100-$200. piece. 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152. $100 156. $200 Daniel Pratt, Jr. OG, ca. 1840. Not much of the Ansonia “La Marne”, ca. 1901. A 12-inch by 13- label left in this 25-inch, 30-hour OG, but enough inch wide Royal Bonn highlighted in green to determine that Pratt was the principal. The with pink and yellow roses. No cracks or veneer is good, the finish a bit flat. A great peri- chips, some crazing and slight discoloration in od tablet lithograph of “Alameda de Paula Ha- spots. Porcelain dial with visible escapement vana,” the first promenade in Havana. The dial is without flaws, signed 8-day movement is glass is also old, the small wooden dial is very running and striking on the hours and half- plain but clearly old. The hands are modern re- hours on a cathedral gong. $200-$350. placements. The unsigned 30-hour movement is running and striking with two old OG weights. Collectable for the 157. $150 tablet for sure. $100-$200. New Haven “La Vogue”, ca. 1901. This is an unusual clock. It is the regular La Vogue case, shown in the Ansonia catalogs; it is not 153. $100 found in Ly’s book on New Haven clocks, although Ly does note that Erastus Yates shelf clock, ca. 1840. Yates made clocks in Butternuts New Haven made a number of porcelain clocks that were not listed NY (now Morris), obtaining Torrington move- in catalogs. This clock contains a music box that plays on the hour ments from Erastus Hodges or standard wood- instead of the strike; you can see the modified strike mechanism en movements from Chauncey Boardman. This and the music box at the bottom of the case one contains a Torrington (east-west) move- in the pictures. New Haven did make a musi- ment and is running and striking with the two cal clock, the Lohengrin, that played on the old 30-hour weights. His few known cases are half-hour, but it was not a porcelain clock. all like this one, although this one is missing the So, this clock is a bit of a mystery. The dial is chimneys and splat (the top board has also been signed, but not the movement that I can see. replaced). The full-length door latches on the Thus, it may not be a New Haven movement, right; the case is 26.5 inches tall. The two half- and may be taken from another clock, per- columns have been repainted and crudely rest- haps a German clock. Perhaps the case is not enciled, the mirror is old but may not be original, New Haven either; it could be an Ansonia and the upper glass is a recent replacement. The wooden dial is case with a New Haven dial and an unknown original, with some fading; the minute hand has been repaired in- music box movement. Yeow! Note that the porcelain dial has nu- correctly. There are no sales of Yates clocks in the Antique Clocks merous hairlines and missing porcelain at the strike arbor. The case Price Guide or in LiveAuctioneers. There is a nice discussion of Yates is nice but needs a thorough cleaning. There is some crazing evi- in An Empire in Time by G. Russell Oechsle et al. $100-$250. dent throughout. The clock will run for a while, perhaps longer once adjusted. It plays several tunes on the hour. $150-$500. 154. $50 Boardman & Wells OG, 1837-1843. A 26-inch 1-day 158. $500 OG with near-perfect flame mahogany veneer, Seth Thomas “Regulator No. 1 Extra”, ca. 1875. An with one blemish on the front lower right. The dial absolutely gorgeous case veneered in rosewood glass is original, the mirror an early twentieth cen- with just a couple of good repairs on the bezel. tury replacement; the wooden dial likely original, Unfortunately, there are several significant issues. the hands unacceptable replacements. The un- There is no lower glass; you will need to have one signed brass movement is running and striking like cut and painted in the ST No. 1 design. The pendu- a champ. Good label inside, two old weights. $50- lum bob is a cheap replacement and you will need $100. to find an ST pendulum bob. The weight is from a Howard No. 70 and is so marked. The bottom 155. $150 weight shield board, which normally displays a Morse & Co. OG, 1850-1855. An innovative brass movement by T.A. beat scale, is missing. The seconds bit is an im- Davies in this OG to regulate the strike mechanism. You can see proper replacement. Note that there is some minute flaking to the “Davies patent lever 1848” stamped into the movement just below painted dial. This example has the early round movement made by the mainstem. Miles Morse Jr was married to Seth Thomas’s grand- S.B. Terry and is signed only with an ‘X’. It is running without issue. daughter and participated in several other period clockmaking busi- If this clock had the lower glass and correct bob I would expect nesses. There are a few other sales examples of this model, but it is $1200-$1500. $600-$1000. not common. The mahogany-veneered case is very nice, 25.5 inches tall; the tablet appears 159. $300 to be original. You don’t see a lot of George E.O. Goodwin miniature Empire, 1851-1855. Goodwin made the cas- Washington tablets, too bad about the chip- es and is best known for this model; he bought ping on top of his head. The wooden dial movements from Brewster & Ingraham, as shows a lot of wear, the hands are replace- found here. Note that the ribbed movement has ments. The movement is 30-hour, with two two brass springs. It is signed and running and old weights; it is running and striking nicely. A striking. The 20.5-inch case is outstanding, the very clear and complete label inside. They say dial glass is a modern replacement (cracked in you should never walk by an OG without look- upper right corner), the mirror original/period ing inside. I guess this is why. $150-$300. and badly spotted, and the lower glass is old; as documented in Paul Henion’s article on litho- graphs used in clocks (NAWCC Bulletin from

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January of this year) this is an image of the McLean Asylum in Som- with metal posts. The dial has been professionally touched up to erville MA, attributed to Asa Warren from 1853. The contoured dial hide “stretch marks”. Part of the ivory escutcheon is missing, there is new; the hands period. A good green label inside. These clocks is a working latch key. The wooden 30-hour movement will run for a bring $300-$500 when in good condition like this. few minutes and strikes. There is a good label inside.

160. $150 165. $150 Atkins Clock Co. “London”, 1859-1879. This is a Waterbury Clock Co. “Parlor clock”, ca. 1860. This beautiful example of this elegant clock. The rose- model is shown on page 425 of Ly’s book on Wa- wood veneer is practically perfect; both glasses terbury clocks. It stands 31 inches tall in rosewood appear to be original, as does the painted dial. veneer with a patina of age; it could be cleaned if The 8-day time-and-strike movement is unsigned, you wanted to bring out the rosewood patterns. as is typical, and is running, although the strike Both glasses are likely original, but I think they side is extremely reluctant to awaken. There is an have been repainted in the original pattern. The excellent label inside. The alarm is untested. $150 painted metal dial is old as well, the hands modern. -$300. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed and is driven by two 8-day cast iron weights; it is run- 161. $150 ning and striking without issue. There is a nice Seth Thomas Sons & Co. “No. 5002”, ca. 1872. This label inside, pendulum bob and winder. No recent sales of this mod- 9-inch clock (with dome) is more commonly known el. $150-$250. as a candlestand clock. The base here is a replace- ment and the dome on this clock is cracked and 166. $100 taped together; it is not the original dome and is a E.N. Welch Clock Co. double-door OOG, ca. 1880. A bit too short. The gold rings on the candlestick are 30-inch double-door OOG with good rosewood discolored. The signed porcelain dial is perfect veneer and an original tablet. This is an 8-day mod- and the hands are correct. The clock is running el with a signed time-and-strike movement and two easily but the hour/half-hour strike is sticky. It also 8-day iron weights. The upper door glass is original feels like the strike spring may be disconnected or broken. This is a and the tablet has an unusual background, as well 15-day movement and is signed on the back. Mr. Horton sold one in as being unusual itself. The painted metal dial is July 2018 for $1275 but it was in near-perfect condition. Although period with some yellowing and there is a good sales of this model are scarce, I’d look for $150-$300 for this exam- label inside. It is running and striking. $100-$200. ple. 167. $100 162. $500 Jerome, Gilbert, Grant & Co. Round-side shelf clock, 1839-1840. The Jeweler’s Regulator, ca. 1890. A dark walnut case with label in this round-side lists Jerome as singular, but the Spittlers & an old glass in the door and two side glasses. The case Bailey (American Clockmakers & Watchmakers) list the company as sits on a matching base, total height is 75 inches. The Jeromes, Gilbert, Grant & Co (1839-1840). Later 11.5-inch porcelain dial is in excellent condition but is examples of this model have the label corrected. missing the sweep seconds hand – the post is there. It uses the Jerome I-beam unsigned 30-hour, There is a brass weight and the usual jeweler’s pendu- time-and-strike movement with the zinc-finished lum, both in need of some polish. I can get the clock to dial as originally manufactured. The dial glass is tick but not to run. $500-$1000. likely original with considerable losses, the tab- let is repainted on old glass. The hands are peri- 163. $800 od. There is dark wallpaper inside and two Gazo Family Clock Factory “La Mesa”, 1978. A 56- square 30-hour weights, with a pendulum bob inch “open well with balcony” model in solid oak and crank. $100-$200. with a Jauch 15-rod chime movement that plays Ave Maria by Franz Schubert. It counts the hours on 4 168. $100 chimes. The clock is running and chiming without John Hunt Round-side shelf clock, ca. 1840. There are several exam- issue and the case is in perfect condition. The Gazos ples of round-sides with a John Hunt label inside, and several have began manufacturing clocks by hand in 1975 and the wooden movements to go with the wooden dial. This one has a company closed in 1989. For a complete story of Jeromes brass movement (unsigned) that looks like it was always the Gazo Family Clock Factory see The Clock Guy’s there; I see no evidence of a wooden movement. Hunt was known write-up here. Horton’s sold a La Mesa in 2016 for to buy movements from others and was a casemaker, he may have $1000. The chime on this clock is uncommon. $800- made this very nice mahogany case. The label is partial but suffi- $1200. cient to attribute to Hunt in Farmington CT. The dial is wooden, in good shape, the dial 164. $350 glass likely original and held in with putty. The E. Terry & Sons pillar & scroll, 1823-1831. Eli Terry lower glass holds a lithograph of a former U.S. with his sons Eli Jr. and Henry; Junior left in 1831 President and is backed by a wooden back- and the business continued as E. Terry & Son until board; it is likely that it was a mirror originally. Eli retired in 1833. This 31-inch pillar & scroll is in There is a veneer chip on the back left of the good shape with a replaced dial glass and repaint- base. The unsigned movement is running and ed tablet on the original glass. The scroll tips and striking a wire gong, driven by two square 30- feet have been repaired; the finials are heavy brass hour weights; the pulleys have tin covers. This

24 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures is the last of the four round-sides in this auction (#5, 6, 167, 168). as it should and does not count the hours. A very similar example $100-$200. sold at Schmitt’s in 2017 for $275. $150-$250.

169. $150 174. $175 Russell & Jones Clock Co. “The Belle”, 1889-1893. A Ansonia Clock Co. “Zenith”, ca. 1914. A 15-inch 28-inch oak wall clock with carvings and ornaments. crystal regulator with a worn original finish where The case has been cleaned, the door glass is likely a much of the gilding is worn off. There are four replacement. The paper dial is old with wear, the perfect beveled glasses and a signed porcelain hands appropriate. The 8-day time-and-strike move- dial with a visible escapement and ruby pallets. ment is signed and running, striking on a cathedral The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is running gong on the hours and half-hours; there is an alarm without problem, but the rack and snail strike as well that strikes on a cup bell (untested). The mechanism is not working properly. The move- pendulum is Russell & Jones issue; there is a label on ment is signed. Otherwise a nice example. This the back. This is a nice example. I can’t find any model is not uncommon and would sell for sales records for this model. $150-$250. around $225 on eBay in this condition. $200-$300.

170. $300 175. $200 Seth Thomas “Arcade”, ca. 1913. A 23.5-inch Seth Thomas “Chime Clock No. 2”, ca. 1914. A oak case with an 18-inch dial. The case has 14-inch case with an undamaged adamantine been cleaned, the dial repainted some time finish housing a 4-bell chime. The signed sil- ago and is beginning to crack and chip again. vered dial shows modest wear, sitting behind a The hands are correct, the glass modern. This convex beveled glass. The 8-day, time-and- is a 30-day, time-only double-wind signed 86T strike movement is running but the chime movement that is running steadily. There is no movement is not; the chime/silent switch is label; there is a door on the bottom to adjust the pendulum. These missing, and it will need repair/replacement. sell for about $450 of late. $400-$500. The strike is also silent, I assume because the chime is not working. This is an uncommon bell-chime clock and 171. $150 would likely retail around $400 if working. $200-$300. Seth Thomas “Hudson”, ca. 1925. A 19-inch square case in oak with a 12-inch dial. The case is 176. $1100 clean, the dial newly repainted, the glass mod- F. Kroeber “Regulator No. 33”, ca. 1880. A 46-inch ern, the hands correct. A 30-day, double-wind walnut case with a clean finish and burl panels on time-only signed 86T movement, running like a the crest and base. The base is missing the two champ. No label or anything on the back. Not outside drop finials, the door glass is newer and was so big as to be overwhelming. $150-$250. originally with an etched design; the paper dial is yellowed. It has a mirrored glass pendulum, a Kroe- 172. $750 ber beat scale, and the remains of two labels behind Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 5 ½ Hanging Bel- plastic on the back. The signed 8-day time-and- grade”, ca. 1980. This is a recent reproduction of strike movement is running easily and striking the the Hanging Belgrade calendar clock. The 37-inch hours on the cathedral gong. Two recent sales at case looks great; I cannot distinguish it from the Schmitt’s for $1300 and $1400; Horton’s sold one in original except by the modern wood used. I be- 2013 for $1227. $1200-$1400. lieve the wood is either oak or ash and has been lightly stained and antiqued to give it some age; 177. $350 the originals came in walnut or ash. The dials are Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 16 Hanging Index”, black paper on old brass dial pans and bezels, with 1890-1916. One of the first oak clocks made by proper old brass hands. The pendulum bob might ICCC, made of solid oak, 30 inches long. The Hang- be the weakest point, as it appears to have been ing Index is not at all common. This one has adver- painted or stained to match. It contains a 30-day tising for the Simons Brothers in Mt. Gilead, OH on double-wind, time-only movement signed by E.N. Welch and made the lower dial. Early models of this clock had a for the Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. It has been cleaned and shined black painted dial board, as found here, but this and looks like new. The calendar movement would appear to be a dial board did not start out with this clock; there modern edition. Of course there is no label and I do not see a are screw holes across the middle that have noth- woodworker’s signature anywhere. It is running strongly and the ing to screw into. The board is also badly warped calendar is advancing. Horton’s sold this clock in 2018 for $1000. and separated at the bottom; there is incising, as commonly found $800-$1200. with Ithaca dial boards, that probably should have gold highlighting. The paper-covered metal dials are also replacements, as the proper 173. $150 calendar dial should a round opening to view the pendulum bob. Ansonia Clock Co. “Don”, ca. 1908. An uncommon The movement here is a time-only double-wind, unsigned, and looks crystal regulator, 13 inches tall with a dull gold fin- like it was made by Pomeroy. It is running without problem but the ish, four perfect beveled glasses, and a two-part connection to the calendar movement has been replaced with a signed porcelain dial with a visible escapement and homemade version that needs adjustment to get the calendars ruby pallets. The time spring is broken or discon- working. A nice label on the back. $350-$600. nected so it doesn’t run, and the strike is not cycling

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178. $350 signed and running and striking on a wire gong. Waterbury pendu- Seth Thomas hotel ‘minder’ clock, ca. 1910? This lum bob with the gold polished off. A dark label inside. $50-$100. came out of a hotel in southern Indiana. It’s 39 inches in length in solid oak. It appears to have 2o2. $25 been painted a pink/mauve color and has been New Haven “Diadem”, ca. 1900. An 18-inch-tall refinished. This clock was used to let hotel manag- case with rosewood veneer and three bell-shaped ers keep track of wake-up calls. If a guest request- finials. There is some chipping to the veneer on the ed a reminder the manager would put a metal left side base, and the finish is dirty and spotted. room number tab on the desired time, in 15-min The silk-screened glass is original, with a butterfly increments. When the clock reached that time a in the middle. An old metal dial with some wear buzzer would sound, and the manager could call and chipping and a signed 30-hour time-and-strike the guest or send a bellhop up to the room. The movement that is running aggressively but the large hand on the movement (behind the dial) con- strike is frozen. The alarm is not hooked up. A nice tacts 48 buttons, 1 every 15 min, for a 12-hour cycle; this is what trig- brass bell and a nice single barrel pendulum, no gers the buzzer at the appropriate time. This clock is missing lots of label. $25-$50. parts including all the battery-powered wiring and is assembled improperly. To see what this clock should look like go to this 203. $50 NAWCC Discussion Forum. The dial has been repainted and the Ingraham shelf clock, ca. 1890. A 24-inch case movement is running effortlessly. An interesting curio. $350-$500. carved in black walnut with an old, dark, and crusty -in-places finish. The door glass is old with a good 179. $300 stencil, there is a level bubble at the bottom and a E. N. Welch “Meyerbeer”, ca. 1892. The Meyerbeer newer thermometer at the top. Both are function- came in black walnut and antique oak, as found ing. The paper dial is in bad shape and ready for here. It’s a 40-inch clock with an old crusty finish. replacement. The 8-day movement is signed, run- The door glass and lettering is original. The 8-inch ning and striking with a typical Ingraham pendu- dial is paper over metal in good condition, with lum. The alarm is hooked up but not tested. Can- appropriate hands. The 8-day, time and half-hour not find this one in Ly’s book on Ingraham clocks strike is running without issue, striking on a cathe- and there is no label left on the back. $50-$125. dral gong. Good labels on the back, signed Welch key included. Only two examples in the Antique 204. $50 Clocks Price Guide, with the most recent sale at Ingraham shelf clock, ca. 1890. Another 24-inch Schmitt’s in 2015 for $600. A nice example of an carved black walnut case with an old, dark, and uncommon clock. $300-$600. crusty-in-places finish. This one is quite handsome, note the carvings on the top. There is an old glass 180. $100 with the original stencil and a paper dial that has Ansonia Clock Co. steeple, 1850-1854. This 20-inch turned green. The signed 8-day, time-and-strike steeple contains a Terry & Andrews signed 30-hour movement is running and striking on a signed wire movement with an Ansonia label from Ansonia, CT, gong. The alarm is not hooked up. The label on this indicating that it was likely stock from the Terry & one is also lost, and it is not shown in Ly’s book. $50-$125. Andrews business after its sale to Ansonia Clock Co. in 1850. The mahogany veneer has some bub- 205. $50 bles, cracks, chips and wear; the glasses are old Ingraham shelf clock, ca. 1890. Another 24-inch and likely original, given that the tablet depicts carved case, this one in oak with an old finish. The Theodore Andrews home. The tablet shows con- stenciled front glass “Time is Money” is likely origi- siderable losses. The clock is running and striking a nal. The paper dial is clean and signed, the hands wire gong; there is a good label inside. $100-$200. old. The signed 8-day movement is running and striking as expected, with an Ingraham-style pendu- 200. $25 lum. Looks like there might have been an alarm at Waterbury miniature steeple, ca. 1880. A 15-inch one time. There is a working bubble level on the steeple with mahogany or rosewood veneer on the base; no label. $50-$100. front, a bit nicked up, two old glasses, the tablet original but rebacked. New galvanized metal dial 206. $50 and a replacement 30-hour time-only movement by Ingraham “Rondo” shelf clock, ca. 1896. This model is found in Ly’s Jerome, with the Jerome logo (J in a star) that I book on Ingraham clocks. Like the others, it stands think was used for exports to England. It is running 24 inches tall in black walnut in an old, dark, and well. Dark label. Nice looking miniature steeple for crusty-in-places finish. It has the typical carvings and a nice price. $25-50. an old glass with a gold stencil. The paper dial is worn, the hands old. There is a signed 8-day time- 201. $50 and-strike movement with a fancy pendulum. It is Waterbury steeple, ca. 1880. A standard-sized stee- running and striking on the signed wire gong. The ple, 19.5 inches tall with good mahogany veneer over- alarm is hooked up but untested. $50-$125. all and a nice lithograph for the tablet. Both glasses are old, the dial likely original, with some soiling, chip- 207. $50 ping, and wear. Old hands. The 30-hour movement is E. N. Welch “Whittier” shelf clock, ca. 1893. A 22-inch carved black

26 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures walnut case with, as usual, an old, dark, and crusty- 212. $75 in-places finish. There is an old glass with a gold Jerome & Co. cottage, ca. 1860. A 16-inch cottage shelf clock in stencil of a Roman warrior. The old paper dial is in walnut, again with the black or ebonized trim edges. Two black good condition and the hands appropriate. The 8- gutta percha inserts with gold trim, and an oval picnic landscape day time and half-hour strike movement is signed painting in the tablet. The gutta percha is cracked and separated at and running, striking on the hours and half-hours. the top and bottom of the tablet insert. What is gutta percha? This th A rather plain pendulum for Welch. Good labels on 19 -century natural thermoplastic is derived the back. $50-$125. from the latex sap of the Palaquium gutta tree from Malaysia and had many uses, in addition 208. $100 to being formed into decorative inserts in Je- New Haven Clock Co. “Elbe” shelf clock, ca. 1883. rome & Co. clocks. The metal dial was repaint- This clock is featured on page 315 of Ly’s book on ed by The Dial House, the door glasses are old. New Haven clocks. A parlor-quality clock with a mul- The 8-day time-and-strike movement is un- ticolor glass and a patented adjustable pendulum signed, running and striking a wire gong with- ball. The 24-inch walnut case has an old dark finish out issue. There is a typical label on the back of with some wear; the four urn finials are correct. The the door. $100-$200. painted metal dial is a replacement. The signed 8-day time-and-strike movement is running and striking 213. $150 brightly on a nickel bell; the alarm is not hooked up. Gilbert Clock Co. “Bishop” ca. 1897. An unusual carved and pressed A partial label on the back. $100-$150. wood clock, 20.5 inches tall and 19 inches across. All ornaments and details appear to be present; the oak case has been refinished. The 209. $50 paper dial has yellowed and there is no bezel; I Waterbury “Davis”, ca. 1906. A 22-inch refinished don’t believe there is supposed to be one, pressed-wood walnut case with an old stenciled based on the catalog illustration (page 185 of glass and a signed paper dial. The dial is a bit yel- Ly’s Gilbert Clocks); I can’t find any sales exam- lowed and spotted, the hands are new. The signed ples either. The movement is signed, running 8- 8-day time and half-hour strike movement is run- days, time-and-strike on a standing cathedral ning and striking on a wire gong, the silver adjusta- gong on the hours and half-hours. There is an ble dial pendulum is probably not original to the alarm ring on the dial but no alarm arm on the clock and is missing the front of its pointer. This movement and no alarm mechanism in the case, model had a glass barometer and thermometer on and it doesn’t appear there ever was. I suspect the dial has been each side near the base. There are remains of a label on the back. changed, as have the hands. Part of a label on the back. With no $50-$100. sales records, I think $150 is a good place to start on price. $150- $250. 210. $100 Geo. B. Owen “Fortuna”, 1875-1879. Owen, the general manager at 214. $75 the Gilbert Clock Co., ran his own clockmaking business for a short Seth Thomas long-drop octagon clock, 1888. The 31-inch oak case while and produced high quality clocks, often with would appear to be the same as used for the early novel designs and innovations. This model was Globe models, but it holds an 8-day, time-only move- listed in his 1878 catalog. The walnut case is 24 ment (ST No. 41) with a front-mounted pendulum. inches tall with a cut-glass door decoration, a fea- Note that the pendulum bob is suspended on a wire ture of Owen clocks. The finial on top is a substi- rather than on a rear-mounted pendulum stick. I tution, not quite to specs; the paper dial is very would assume that this is a less expensive option dark and yellowed but may be original. The 8-day than the Globe, but it is not shown in Ly’s books on time-and-strike movement is signed, running, and Seth Thomas clocks; I cannot find an example in the striking on the hours with a typical single barrel Antique Clocks Price Guide either. There is no evi- pendulum. No label. $100-$150. dence that the movement is not original to the case (e.g., additional screw holes). The dial pan is new, as 211. $75 are the hands; the old glass in the bezel was replaced some time Jerome & Co. “Octagon Top”, ca. 1860. A 16-inch shelf clock with ago, the lower glass is newer as well. The pendulum bob is not Seth walnut veneer and black or ebonized trim in a typical Jerome style. Thomas issue. There is a black Seth Thomas label inside (not visible The gutta percha inserts in the top and lower glasses show no in the photo as it is behind the framing), and the back is stamped breaks and the gold trim is still bright. Both glasses are old. The with the date of manufacture (Oct 1888). The clock is running and paint on the flat metal dial may be original, the closed Maltese keeping time. $100-$150. hands are very old. The brass 30-hour time-and- strike movement is unsigned, running but the 215. $100 strike is not working and requires an adjustment to Seth Thomas “Tradition 2W”, ca. 1950. A miniature one of the lift levers. It should strike on a wire (20-inch) reproduction of a pillar and scroll with a gong. There is a nice label on the door with in- spring-driven, 8-day time-and-strike movement. structions for adjusting the clock, and wallpaper The case is mahogany, the dial painted metal with on the inside of the case. A nice example; these an eglomise tablet and small brass finials, all in fine are selling for around $100 on eBay these days. shape. It is running and striking a single rod on the $100-$150. hours and half-hours. Horton’s sold this clock two years ago for $150. $100-$200.

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216. $50 on the cathedral gong on the hours and half-hours. No label. $50- Brewster & Ingrahams steeple, 1843-1852. A 19.5-inch $125. steeple with two original glasses, a repainted dial and replaced hands, and a signed 30-hour ribbed brass 222. $50 movement with a brass strike-side spring. The case is Seth Thomas “Cottage” alarm, 1865-1917. Seth missing the rosewood veneer on the front and the tab- Thomas made cottage clocks like this for over 50 let is very worn but is backed nicely with a grey card. years, a durable model. All are 14.5 inches tall, this There is a good label inside and the clock is running and one in rosewood and mahogany veneer in excellent striking on cue. $50-$100. condition, clean but in need of some polish. The dial glass is old, the lower tablet a not-too-modern re- 217. $50 placement. The contoured metal dial has been re- Seth Thomas “Senate”, 1938. The case is 19 inches square, refin- painted, the hands are incorrect. The signed, time- ished and stained. I think it is original, but there and-alarm movement is the round cottage move- is no label, and the catalog says it came only in ment shown on page 991 of Ly’s Vol. 2, Seth Thomas Clocks & Move- quartered oak; this looks like stained walnut, or ments; in this case the strike train is replaced by an alarm and the possibly birch. I can’t exclude the possibility that clock does not strike – perfect for a bedroom nightstand. There is a it is hand-made. It was designed for a self- good label inside from Thomaston, dating the clock to after 1865. It starting electric movement but now holds a sim- is running, the alarm was not tested. $50-$150. ple Seth Thomas 8-day, time-only, spring-driven movement. The painted metal dial is original, 223. $150 with considerable flaking in the center, and the hands are replace- S.B. Terry double-peaked steeple, ca. 1840? This ments; the dial glass is not old. The dial board is stained plywood. is a tough one to pin down. Silas B. Terry had a It is running without issue. $50-$150. long and prolific career, but this is the only stee- ple clock I can find made by him. There are no 218. $250 examples among the 60 S.B. Terry clocks listed in E.N. Welch “Gerster, V.P.”, ca. 1880. A 17.5-inch the Antique Clocks Price Guide. This steeple is a rosewood case with two old glasses (one side bit unusual in that it has front and back cone fini- glass is replaced), a painted dial with several als on each side. Clearly Terry made the case, spots of repainting, and a replacement top that based on the very clear label inside. The rose- is not to specs. The hands are not correct. The wood veneer on the front is attractive, with some Patti movement is running and striking on the chips and repairs. The case was built to hold a nickel bell, there is a sandwich glass pendulum seatboard for the movement, but there is no and the interior is backed with black paper. seatboard and the movement is mounted to the back wall and looks Remains of a label on the back. $150-$250. like it always was. The brass 30-hour, time-and-strike movement is not signed and not particularly unusual, which is a bit unusual as 219. $50 Silas liked to make unusual movements. The strike spring is brass, E. Ingraham “Pacific”, ca. 1915. A clean 23-inch suggesting it is an early clock (steel springs largely replaced brass pressed oak case with an old door glass and a springs by 1850; interestingly, S.B. Terry developed the technique signed and badly yellowed paper dial. The signed 8 for making cheap coiled steel springs). The metal dial may hold the -day movement is running and striking on a wire original paint; the hands are correct replacements. The dial glass is gong, the pendulum is Ingraham issue. The alarm old, the tablet a nice modern replacement. This could be a very rare is hooked up but not tested. No label. This clock clock. $100-$250. would have cost you $4.25 in 1915. $50-$125. 224. $100 220. $100 E. Ingraham “Trenton” store clock, ca. 1923. This 38- New Haven “Tambour No. 2”, ca. 1917. New Haven’s top of the line inch store clock has been painted black but original- tambour. Solid mahogany with a rich finish, 12 inches tall and 24 ly had an oak finish. There is some chipping to the inches wide, perfect for that 1920’s mantel. The dial is porcelain, paint now. The upper glass is a replacement, the signed, with some chips at the speed lower glass is old but should have “Regulator” in adjustment arbor; the hands are re- gold lettering above the pendulum bob. The paper placements. The glass is curved and dial is old and signed, the hands are Ingraham issue. beveled. The unsigned rack and snail The 8-day time-only, signed movement is running, movement is running and striking on a the pendulum bob is correct. Not bad if you don’t cathedral gong on the hours and half- mind black. $100-$200. hours. No label. $100-$200. 225. $150 221. $50 Ansonia “Prism” crystal regulator, ca. 1914. An 11- Seth Thomas “Alto”, ca. 1921. A 16-inch wide adamantine-cased inch crystal regulator with a worn and tarnished tambour, 9.5 inches tall. The dark walnut finish, four beveled glasses and a good two-part adamantine is without nicks or chips; the porcelain dial with an open escapement and steel dial is painted, the hands correct, the dial pallets. The signed, 8-day time-and-strike rack and glass convex, the brass sash could use snail movement is running strongly and striking on some polish. The 8-day time-and-strike the half-hour and hour. Glasses are scratched up at signed movement is running and striking the bevels, front door does not fully close. $100-

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$200. 231. $50 Mission-style grandmother clock, ca. 1903-1918? This 226. $50 68-inch tall, dark oak case has a very simple time-only New Haven “Guide”, ca. 1880. An uncommon clock weight driven movement on a pull-up weight. The with no sales in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. It movement and the frame are unsigned but one possi- stands 17.5 inches tall in a rosewood veneer with bility is the Monitor Clock Works out of Medina NY in columns in front and a door that opens to the dial the early 1900’s. Their movements were very small and pendulum. The tablet is very nice, original, but with just three gears and were weight-driven. A simi- missing part of the bottom painting. The dial glass is lar model with a label sold at Soulis auctions in 2011. also original. The metal dial has been repainted and Based on what I can find on MCW, it appears that this the hands are unmatched. The 30-hour movement is clock is lacking a large pulley that would have hung unsigned and running, striking the hours on a wire from the looped chain on which to hang the weight. gong. Good label inside, nice patina on the case. An unusual model. The pendulum bob and possibly the weight may be $50-$150. replacements. Given all that, the clock runs just fine, although I did not check it for time-keeping. $50- 227. $50 $100. E. Ingraham “Venetian No. 2”, ca. 1875. An 18-inch Venetian with bird’s eye maple veneer around the 232. $100 base; as there are no chips or wear, I fear it is a re- Seth Thomas “Gingerbread”, ca. 1880. A 28-inch oak-veneered placement. The rest of the case is walnut. Both kitchen wall clock, one of only a few from Seth glasses are original, held in with very old putty, but Thomas. This one has a thermometer (bulb is bro- the image on the lower glass has been replaced, or at ken) at the top and a level at the bottom least rebacked in an unusual color. The dial is re- (working). The veneer is chipping off in places and placed paper with some foxing, and the minute hand is covered darkly with varnish, with some crackling. an improper replacement. The signed 30-hour, time- The glass is old, the signed paper dial is very yel- and-strike movement is running and striking on cue. An alarm, un- lowed. The signed 8-day, time-and-strike move- tested, is present, and a good label inside. $50-$100. ment is running; the hour/half-hour strike will strike the brass bell but requires assistance. There is also 228. $100 an alarm, untested, a white ST label on the inside Sessions “Alden” banjo, ca. 1927. A 32-inch solid ma- bottom, and an ST pendulum bob. $100-$200. hogany banjo clock, time-only, with very nice glasses and a silvered dial. The case has a good finish, the glass- 233. $100 es are as shown in the catalog (Ly, Sessions Clocks, page Wm. Gilbert “Hollywood”, ca. 1929. A small wall clock (24 inches 50). The dial glass is convex, the gold plating on the tall), “for the modern home or apartment.” This sash is worn off. The hands are correct. The signed 8- model is shown in Ly’s Gilbert Clocks Supplement, day, time-only movement is running without issue. The page 12. It has a dark mahogany finish, a beveled only flaw I can find is a missing half-round piece that lower glass, and a silvered dial with “ornamental should be at the very bottom of the clock base. Hardly hands”. There are small carved ornaments on the top noticeable. No label. $100-$200. and bottom, not very noticeable. The signed silvered dial is a bit yellowed here. The 8-day time-and-strike 229. $100 signed movement is running and striking the hours Sessions banjo, ca. 1927. I can’t find this banjo in Ly’s and half-hours in a ding-dong pattern on two chime book on Sessions clocks. It is clearly a Sessions clock; rods. The nickeled pendulum rod and bob are correct. the partial label on the back is a Sessions label, the pan- Typically sells for from $100 to $200 on eBay; often els are Sessions images, the dial and movement are missing the beveled lower glass. $100-$200. signed. It is 34 inches tall, in a dark hardwood case with some scratches that could be hidden with a stain pen. 234. $75 The brass side arms are not found on other Sessions Seth Thomas “Athens”, 1887. This is a slight varia- banjos and the throat glass is cracked (note that it is tion of the Athens city series model – the door glass in front of a panel so could be easily replaced). frame at the top differs from the catalog illustration The silvered dial is in excellent condition and the 8-day, by missing some arched trim. The case is walnut, time-and-strike movement is running and striking on nicely cleaned, 17 inches tall. The door glass is old, the hours and half-hours on a wire gong. $150-$250. the stained paper dial an old replacement; remains of the original painted dial are on the back of the 230. $100 dial pan. The ST 8-day, time-and-strike movement is Seth Thomas “Brookfield 4W” banjo, ca. 1958. This is a running and striking, the pendulum bob is ST issue, and there is an late model banjo based on the Brookfield electric mod- alarm (untested). There is a black label inside on the bottom and el first marketed in 1932. The mahogany case is 29 inch- the date of manufacture is stamped on the back. $100-$200. es long with brass side arms and bezel and a silvered dial behind a bowed glass. Both painted glasses are 235. $25 very nice, in like-new condition. It strikes the hours and Asian octagon long drop, ca. 1920. This is a small (22 inch) octagon half-hours on two chime rods; it is running and striking drop in walnut with a new contoured dial pan. Both glasses are like a champ. $100-$200. modern; the “Regulator A” on the glass copied American clocks of the same style. The 8-day time-and-strike movement is unsigned

29 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures and cheaply made; there is no label so we do not faded, but again likely original. The 30-hour weight-driven, time-and know the maker but it is likely from Japan or Korea. -strike movement is not signed; it will only run for a short while. The pendulum looks like an Ingraham pendulum, with Good label inside, with two old weights. Door handle is a replace- much corrosion. The brass bezel has come unsol- ment. $100-$250. dered from its hinge and will need resoldering. As cute as it is, I would not count on this clock to be ac- 241. $100 curate or reliable. $25-$75. E.N. Welch “Gounod”, ca. 1889. A 24.5-inch shelf clock in black walnut with a clean finish. Nice carv- 236. $25 ings and full columns, and finials on top. Original Hatain miniature round-drop, ca. 1920. Even smaller than #235, this glass puttied in, original painted dial, very clean, miniature Japanese clock is just 17.25 inches long. The correct hands. A brass pendulum, perhaps not origi- case is walnut, the dial glass newer, the lower glass nal, but very nice. Signed 8-day, time-and-strike original with the “Hatain Made in Japan” in gold letter- movement, I can’t keep it running; it strikes on the ing, with some wear. The dial is paper on the original hours and half-hours. Illegible labels on the back. pan, the time-and-strike movement unsigned; I think it $100-$200. is 8-day. It is running and striking a wire gong. Pendu- lum bob a replacement, no label, although there used 242. $25 to be something on the back. $25-$50. New Haven Clock Co. “Camden Line”, ca. 1890. A 22- inch pressed oak case in an old refinish. The door 237. $25 glass is likely newer, the faded painted dial is signed Hamilton octagon drop chime clock, ca. 1986. Who knew Hamilton at the bottom. The 8-day, time and half-hour strike made clocks that wouldn’t fit in your pocket or on your wrist? This movement is signed, running and striking. New well-made solid walnut case is 23.5 inches long with a Haven pendulum and a good label on the back. $50- convex glass over the painted dial. It uses a Hermle $100. 8-day, time-and-strike movement that plays West- minster chimes on four chime rods and counts the 243. $25 hours on all four. The movement was replaced in Seth Thomas “Drop Octagon 12 Inch”, ca. 1879. The 23.5-inch case is 2002; there is a dedication plaque on the front from mahogany with the original 12-inch painted metal GM for 25 years of service by Paul Schwan. I guess dial (note the logo above the mainstem) and his family didn’t want to keep the clock. You could hands. Both glasses appear to be original. The 8- remove the small glued-on plaque and no one would know. The day, time-and-strike movement is reluctant to run clock is running and chiming nicely. $25-$100. and the strike is stuck. There is a wire gong and the remains of a black label inside. The dial has been 238. $25 touched up and the paint no longer matches, and Memakeai Clock Co. round gallery clock, ca. 1920? there are more chips. Lotta room for improvement A 16-inch diameter clock in a darkly stained here. $50-$100. wood. The glass is old, the paper replacement dial sits over a flaking metal dial. The signed 8- 244. $25 day time-and-strike movement is running and Seth Thomas cottage clock, ca. 1865. A 15.5-inch striking. Pendulum door on the bottom, Japa- clock with a 30-hour time-and-strike movement nese label on the back. $50-$100. (running and striking) and two old/original glasses. The contoured metal dial may also be original, with 239. $50 chipping at the edges and right side. The movement Wm. S. Johnson OG with alarm, 1841-1848. Mr. is signed Plymouth Hollow and the label is Thomas- Johnson is thought to have been a retailer of ton. The finish needs serious renovation, I believe clocks in New York city; he was at 16 Cortlandt St. the veneer is oak. Need a project? $25-$75. in the mid-1840’s. This 28-inch OG has good veneer and a glossy finish with a time-strike-alarm 30-hour 245. $100 brass movement, unsigned. It is running and strik- Ansonia Brass & Copper Co. “Large Gothic Gem”, ing, the alarm untested. There are two small 1869-1877. The rosewood veneer on this 18.5-inch square weights and an alarm weight. The painted clock is practically perfect. The glasses are original, metal dial has some chipping but is reasonably clean, the hands are the dial glass held in with putty, the lower glass has new and mismatched. The mirror is period, the dial glass a replace- yellowed perhaps due to a lacquer coating to pre- ment. Good but dark label inside. $50-$150. serve the reverse-painted image. The paint on the metal dial is old as well; the 8-day time-and-strike 240. $100 movement is not signed that I can see. It is running L. & F. Andrews shelf clock, 1836-1843. A 24.25-inch and striking as expected. There is a good label in- case veneered in mahogany with a full-length door. side. A very nice example. $100-$200. The rounded front and style suggests the OG case which was becoming popular at this time. There is a piece of veneer missing from the crosspiece on the Remember, any clock can be returned for a full refund door and some repairs on the lower left. Both glass- within 30 days. If the clock is not as described, or we es are old, the tablet likely original and not one I’ve missed something not evident from the pictures, ship- seen before. The painted dial is heavy zinc, dirty and ping costs are refunded as well!

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246. $25 300. $100 Welch, Spring & Co. “Italian No. 3, V.P.” ca. 1878. A Waterbury “Chantilly” crystal regulator, ca. 1914. 14-inch case in rosewood veneer with a full glass Under 12 inches tall in a very dull “brush brass” fin- door. This is the smallest model in this line, some- ish. All four beveled glasses are good. One noticea- times called a miniature. The veneer has some ble hairline in the signed standard porcelain dial. repairs and missing pieces along the base; the door The clock is not running and the strike runs without glass appears to be original, as is the dirty and stopping. Needs work. $100-$200. chipped metal dial. The hands are slight mismatch- es; the pendulum is a replacement. The 30-hour 301. $150 time-and-strike movement is signed and is running Ansonia “Zenith” crystal regulator, ca. 1914. A 15-inch and striking on the brass bell. Someone put green flocking inside crystal regulator with a dull and chipping finish. Four the case. $25-$50. good beveled glasses, two-part porcelain dial in good shape, signed, with open escapement and ruby pal- 247. $25 lets. Signed movement is not running. Damage to Wm. Gilbert “Coupon”, ca. 1891. A 13.25-inch cot- glass vials in the pendulum. $150-$250. tage that should have a decorated glass below the dial. Both glasses are modern, the rosewood ve- 302. $50 neer is badly chipped on the right side and a bit Ingraham shelf clock, ca. 1900. A 20.5-inch walnut rough all over. The painted and decorated dial is case missing the top finial and with a dull finish in original, the hands correct. The signed 8-day, time- need of rejuvenation. This model is not in Ly’s book and-strike movement is running and striking on the on Ingraham clocks and there is no label, so the only wire gong. Remains of a Gilbert label inside, very dark. $25-$50. indications I have that it is Ingraham issue is the signed movement and the old door glass with a typi- 248. $50 cal Ingraham stencil. The paper dial is an old replace- British United Clock Co. shelf clock, ca. 1890. This 17- ment, the pendulum very worn. The 8-day time-and-strike signed inch clock looks rather German to me, but the label movement is running and striking a cathedral gong on the hours and inside makes it clear that it was made by the UCC, a half-hours as required. An alarm is hooked up but was not tested. company founded in 1885 by the Davies brothers in $50-$100. England. The case is walnut or mahogany with eb- onized trim and gold ornaments. The two-part dial 303. $25 is glossy paper and brass. The glass is modern, the E. Ingraham “Brittanic”, ca. 1880. A 16-inch case 30-hour time-only movement unsigned but running veneered in rosewood with a full glass door bor- like a champ. $50-$100. dered by two columns. Unfortunately, this clock has been physically abused. Someone added two early 249. $100 electrical connectors to the top of the case. Trust Waterbury Clock Co. English market clock, ca. 1890. me, there is nothing electrical inside, and never was. The 39-inch walnut case is in the typical English style The door glass is a replacement, I believe the dial is a with extensive marqueterie and a fretted screen replacement, with an old paper dial replacement as inside the case. Some held a mirror on the back wall well. The hands are not correct. The 8-day time-and-strike move- in front of the pendulum. This case is in better than ment is signed Ingraham, and is running and striking, with some average shape, with no losses to the inlay that I can coaxing. The pendulum appears correct. No label to be found. see. The red cloth behind the fretwork is a replace- Perhaps useful for parts. $25-$50. ment; the paper dial is signed Waterbury but not original. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is 304. $25 also signed Waterbury and is running and striking on Ansonia Brass & Copper Co. “Rose & Gilt Cottage”, ca. 1874. A 13.5- the brass bell. The door glass is original. Note the inch rosewood-veneered case with gilt trim around the inlay on the base (and the missing right finial tip). door. A bit of damage to the veneer at the top; both $125-$175. glasses original, the tablet rebacked. The dial is new as are the hands. The 30-hour time-and-strike movement 250. $50 is signed Waterbury and so likely a replacement. It is Jerome & Co. beehive, 1857-1904. Clocks with this label were made running and striking. A good AB&C company label by the New Haven Clock Co. after it acquired Jerome Manufacturing inside. $25-$100. Co. in 1857. This beehive stands 19.5 inches tall with an old and crusty finish, with some wear marks and such. The 305. $10 dial glass is newer, the tablet old and retains good Ansonia Clock Co. steeple, 1870. A 20-inch steeple with color on the flowers. It has likely been rebacked, little to recommend it. The rosewood veneer is missing and there are a few chips. The metal dial shows in places and chipped in others, the tablet is repainted paint loss, the hands are mismatched. The unsigned crudely on the front of the lower glass. Both glasses are (but clearly Jerome) 8-day, time-and-strike move- old, as is the metal dial. Hands are replacements, finial ment is running strongly and striking the wire gong tips broken. The 30-hour movement is unsigned but is on the hours. A good but dark label inside. $50- running and striking a wire gong. Bits and pieces of the $150. label. $10-$25.

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306. $100 green, the label long gone. The signed Forestville Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. “No. 8 Shelf Library”, 1868- 8-day time-and-strike movement looks good but 1883. This example is for parts. Here are the prob- was not tested; there are no weights with this lems: No back. Wrong top finial. Time dial needs to clock but weights are available if you need them be replaced. Hands are old but not correct. Middle for $50 – put a note on your bid sheet that you door to allow access to the pendulum is an improper want weights. $50-$100. replacement. Calendar glass is modern. The strike chain of the movement is not working properly. The 311. $100 alarm is missing. The link connection to the month Seymour, Hall & Co. 8-day wood- calendar roller is missing the pin to connect to the en works, 1839-1840. There are calendar mechanism and will likely need professional only three clocks listed in the Antique Clocks Price repair. There is no pendulum bob. Here, on the other hand, are the Guide under this short-lived company, none in very positives: Decent walnut case. Nice signed old paper calendar dial good condition. This makes four. It should have a (with some losses at the pendulum window). Correct calendar carved splat and perhaps two carved pineapple hand. Old time-dial glass. Signed Welch 8-day time-and-strike finials. The pillar & scroll base was added as well; it movement is running (strike side needs work). Repairable original might have had claw feet. The old impressionistic calendar movement. $100-$200. reverse-glass painting is out of place. The dial glass is old, with old putty but not necessarily original. 307. $50 The case is 37.5-inches tall with very nice carved half columns, the New Haven “30 Day Willard” banjo, ca. 1929. A 40-inch solid mahog- best part of this clock; the finish on the door is alligatored and the any case with two nice glasses (printed panels behind knob is improper. The wooden dial is fine, hands period, the 8-day, glass), and a convex glass over the silvered dial. The time-and-strike wooden movement is untested, and there are no dial shows considerable wear, the hands are correct. weights. If you want weights let me know on your bid sheet ($50). The metal retainer ring holding the dial glass in place in Nice label inside. $100-$200. the bezel has come unsoldered and will need repair. Worse than that, the pendulum suspension spring is 312. $10 broken and will need replacement and is likely to be a Ingraham “Berlin”, ca. 1915. A 13-inch gothic mahogany cabinet in chore (see photo). The signed 30-day, time-only move- poor condition. The signed paper (iveroid) dial is yellowed, behind a ment looks fine but couldn’t be tested; the pendulum convex glass. The unsigned movement is clearly Ingra- bob has lost most of it’s finish. Good label on the back. ham (hour strike on a cathedral gong, half-hour strike on A good clock if you could find a replacement pendulum. a cup bell); it is not willing to run and does not strike on When in running condition these sell for $300 or more. the half-hour. No pendulum bob. Dark label on the $75-$150. back, confirming maker. These are nice clocks when in good condition. $10-$25. 308. $25 Seth Thomas “Brookfield 4W” banjo, ca. 1958. A second 313. $50 example of this model (see also #230). This one has a Waterbury Clock Co. “Kent”, ca. 1913. The less to recommend it, with a very worn silvered dial and a Kent normally has a visible escapement but missing top eagle finial and finial mount; the pendulum here a flat dial is used with the retailer’s bob should be brass but is not. It is running and striking name, “LePolt & Co., New York Chicago”. the hours and half-hours on two chime rods. $25-$100. The porcelain dial is badly damaged and touched up; the glass is convex and beveled. The 10.5 by 18.5-inch 309. $100 case is mahogany with some nicks. The signed 8-day movement Waterbury Clock Co. “Chime Clock No. 503”, ca. 1915. This 16-inch with a rack and snail strike on the hours and half-hours is running chime clock came in Mahogany or “Circassian Walnut”; I think it this and striking. There is a label on the bottom. $50-$100. one is the latter. It is a tree from central Europe and is the same as the English walnut and has a very nice look. The clock has the typi- 314. $50 cal gilt filigree and silver dial with a fast-slow adjustment and a German box clock, ca. 1930. A 30.5-inch oak case with a beveled chime-silent setting. It strikes Westminster glass in the bottom and a flat replacement glass over the worn sil- chimes on five chime rods and counts the hours vered dial. There are brass ornaments on the top half on four. This one will not stop striking the hours as well. The unsigned movement plays Westminster and the Westminster chimes (even on the silent chimes on four rods and counts the hours on the same setting) and will need work. It is running and I am four rods. The suspension spring is broken so I couldn’t waiting for it to run down. The case is in fine check if it runs but it does chime and strike. Suspension condition, there is some wear to the silver chap- springs are inexpensive and available from TimeSavers, ter ring, and there is a beveled glass in the door. and easy to replace; I did not have one on hand or I $100-$200. would have replaced it. The case is slightly out of square. With the chimes this is one step above the 310. $50 average German box clock. $50-$100. Forestville Mfg. Co. triple-decker, 1842-1849. A 31.5-inch case with some veneer repairs and missing pieces. All three glasses are re- 315. $100 placements, the middle glass repainted some time ago, the bottom French/English/Ansonia balloon clock, ca. 1900. This is a beautiful glass with plastic decals. The wooden dial has been repainted and English walnut or mahogany balloon clock, 20.5 inches tall with a antiqued. The hands are old. The interior has been spray-painted mixed wood inlay and satinwood lines all around the front. It sits on

32 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures four brass ball feet on the skirted base. With gold 401. $350 lion heads on the side I am not sure the wood finial on Lenzkirch balcony wall clock, ca. 1870. A 38-inch top is correct. I am practically certain the Ansonia oak case with a clean, medium-tone finish. The movement does not belong in this case, but there is dial is brass with a silvered floral decoration in no label on the case to be sure. I cannot find this the middle and two fancy hands. The 8-day time- model in Ly’s book on Ansonia clocks. The dial and and-strike movement is signed and includes a bezel are probably also Ansonia but the porcelain dial serial number dating it to between 1860 and with the brass center is not signed. The glass is bev- 1875, depending on which serial number guide eled. The clock is running and striking. The case you choose to use. It is running and striking on would benefit from a proper movement. $100-$200. the hours and half-hours on a heavy gong. $350- $500. 316. $100 Seth Thomas “Umbria” (modified). This used to be a 402. $225 very nice cherry Umbria but has been converted into a English round fusee timepiece, ca. 1900. A 14.5- shelf clock. Interestingly, Seth Thomas doesn’t list inch diameter clock in an old oak case with a re- cherry as an option with the Umbria. You might think painted dial for the Guildford Arms in Edinburgh, this was a special order, but the base, lower door, and Scotland. The Guildford Arms has been a Free a bit of trim are made of walnut rather than cherry. In House (pub) since 1896, and prior to that was a fact, the “base” is an upside-down top to another hotel. Whether this clock ever kept the time clock. Both glasses are beveled, also not found on the there is unknown, but it is a distinguished name in Umbria. The painted metal dial is ST, signed and likely Edinburgh. The dial glass is modern, the 8-day fusee movement is original, as are the hands (the minute hand has been unsigned; it is running without issue. $250-$500. repaired). The movement is a signed 15-day, time-only movement with the proper pendulum and is running without enthusiasm. A 403. $250 proper Umbria is 40.5 inches tall, this guy has been shortened by 3 Friedrich Mauthe bracket chime, ca. 1910. This 17-inch oak case has inches. I would guess the movement alone is worth the asking an old finish with some patina. The machined brass dial shows some price. $100-$500. oxidation and wear, the silvered chapter ring as well. It is signed ‘Germany’ at the bottom. The 8- 317. $100 day movement is signed FMS below an eagle, the Ansonia Clock Co. “El Audran”, ca. 1904. A 10- logo for Mauthe. It is running, chiming Westmin- inch tall black marble clock with marble accents ster on the quarter hours on four chime rods and on the front sides and inscribed gilded designs on counting the hours on a fifth rod. It is the best the front. The two-part porcelain dial sits in a sounding chime I’ve heard on rods, easily rivaling French sash with a beveled glass and a visible that on bells. $250-$500. escapement, with ruby pallets. The marble case is clean with no chips, the incising is still bright. 404. $300 The 8-day half-hour strike movement is signed English fusee mantel clock, ca. 1880? A 21.5-inch- and running, but the rack and snail strike is not working properly. tall carved mahogany case, 20 inches wide with No recent sales records. $100-$200. an 11-inch matte dial. Newer glass in the brass bezel, old hands. There is a large unsigned brass 318. $50 pendulum movement and two large fusee Ansonia “Toulon”, ca. 1904. This is an enameled springs; it should run 8 days, striking a bell on the cast iron case, 11.5 inches tall, with a painted hours. Running and striking, just a bit fussy. grass-like decoration, two imitation marble col- Brighton is a seaside resort directly south of Lon- umns and brass ornamentation. The top piece is don. $300-$500. a replacement for a larger piece that has gone missing. The celluloid dial is cracked and repaired 405. $50 on the right side; it sits behind a beveled flat Junghans cabinet clock, 1905. A 13-inch mahogany glass in a sash that doesn’t quite close. The signed 8-day, time-and- case with a very old, possibly original finish and lots strike movement is frozen solid and will need a serious cleaning; I of “patina”. The door glass is old, the dial brass don’t think it has been touched in 100 years. $50-$100. with brass ornamentation and a silver chapter ring and a decorated inner dial, now dark with oxida- 400. $350 tion. It appears the dial was lacquered. The “bim- Figure Eight Vienna, ca. 1920? A 32-inch single-weight bam” movement is signed and can be dated to Vienna with a clean, grain-painted case, an old door 1905. It is running and striking on the quarter-hours glass, and a two-part porcelain dial in a machined bezel on one rod; the other hammer is missing. It counts the hours as with fancy hand-cut hands. No scratches or flaws to well. Key included. $50-$125. be found. The small finial on top is likely a substitute for a larger crest, and it appears there should be a 406. $50 finial on the bottom as well. The movement and dial Junghans cabinet clock, ca. 1911. A 13-inch mahoga- are one piece, pinned together and mounted to the ny-cased clock with a silvered dial behind a beveled backboard; I did not see a signature but did not re- convex glass. The finish is old, a bit alligatored in move the movement. It is running without issue. $400 spots; the dial in very good shape with little wear. -$600. There are two brass inserts in the panels below the

33 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures dial that need to be cleaned up to shine. Four brass ball feet and a There are brass/gilded ornaments all around the 15-inch case, with a signed movement dated to 1911, I believe, running and striking the large vase at the top. The 5-inch porcelain dial is practically perfect half-hours and hours on a cathedral gong. $50-$100. except for some cracks at the rating adjustment arbor. On both sides of the case are brass, fabric-covered screens to allow the gong 407. $100 sound to be heard; the clock is running and striking, with a single French black marble mantel clock, ca. 1890. An 18- strike on the hour and half-hour. I can’t exclude the possibility that inch clock in black marble with red marble trim, it should be counting the hours on the hour, but I did not pull the gold ornaments on the sides and a marble and movement to inspect. The movement is signed Ls. Boname, Selon- brass urn on top. The black dial with gold numerals court. I found one other example in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, is signed “Louaré Montereau” behind a beveled selling for $1600 in 2011 at Schmitt’s. $500-$800. glass in a gilt sash. The pendule de Paris move- ment will run only for a minute or two and will 412. $50 need attention. It strikes on a nickel bell. The pen- French figural mantel clock, ca. 1880. A 17.5-inch dulum and movement have matching serial num- refinished metal figural mantel clock of a boy holding bers; there is an interesting logo on the back plate, EBS around a a rifle. The case has been refinished in a coppery bell. I cannot identify the maker, if you know let me know. $100- bronze. The dial is porcelain with a wreath of flow- $200. ers; there are cracks and repairs in several places. The unsigned movement is not running and will need 408. $50 repair; the hands are stuck. I believe the boy should French black marble mantel clock, ca. 1890. A 17-inch be holding something in his right hand. Just a deco- clock in black marble with pink marble trim, gold side rative item right now. $100-$150. ornaments and feet, and a marble and brass ornament on top. The porcelain dial has some repaired chips at 413. $100 the winding ports; the glass is beveled. The pendule L.P. Japy & Co. brass mantel clock, ca. 1878. A 17-inch de Paris movement is unsigned and lacking a pendu- brass case with gilded ornaments and a brass dial with lum, so it was not tested. $50-$100. porcelain cartouche numerals behind a beveled glass. The case is clean and bright, the ornaments untar- 409. $50 nished. The signed pendule de Paris movement strikes S. Marti black marble mantel clock, ca. 1890. An 18- the hours and half-hours but runs only briefly. $100- inch black marble case with pink marble trim and $200. brass ornamentation, including a brass and marble top piece. The horizontal surfaces are spotted with 414. $50 paint or something like it but should clean up. The Unknown metal case clock, ca. 1880? This 12-inch decorated porcelain dial sits behind a beveled glass. clock is all metal and appears to have had a gold/gilt The pendule de Paris movement is signed “Marti” and finish long ago. Now it is just grey pot metal, but with is lacking a pendulum, so it was not tested. $50-$100. a little attention it could easily be spray painted or even brass or nickel plated. It has white cartouche 410. $100 numerals (note that the ‘4’ is replaced and not porce- Vincenti & Cie slate architectural mantel clock, ca. 1880. A large and lain) and painted white hands. The unsigned time-only very heavy (43 lb) Belgian slate mantel clock, 13 inches high by 18 pendule de Paris movement is running without prob- inches wide. Three Corinthian columns on lem. $50-$100. each side, trimmed in gold with a gold- trimmed ornament in the pediment. The dial 415. $50 is gold-toned with painted black numerals Schatz 8-day cuckoo clock, 1950-1985. The Schatz Clock and a center ornament on a black back- Co. is best known for its 400-day clocks. Cuckoos like ground, with brass hands. The brass bezel this one were manufactured beginning in 1950. This is holds a beveled flat glass. The clock sits on the maple leaf model, a 13-inch linden wood case with a brass feet. The pendule de Paris movement cuckoo that calls on the hours and half-hours. It is not has a Vincenti & Cie logo, 1855 and is marked ‘A1’ in a circle. It is running and likely just needs adjustment, but the cuckoo running and striking on a cathedral gong. Old fabric over the fenes- does call and strike a wire gong on cue. Note how the trations in the back door. There are no significant chips or cracks to back plate of the movement depicts a bird. These sell on the case. $150-$250. eBay for $50-$200.

411. $400 416. $150 Louis Boname Neuchatel-style mantel clock, ca. Vincenti crystal regulator, ca. 1910. A small (9 inch) 1895. An uncommon French antique clock style; crystal regulator with a dull, tarnished finish in need of not boulle (tortoise shell), but the same shape attention. The four beveled glasses show chips in the (Neuchatel, named after a town in Switzerland on corners; the decorated flat porcelain dial with gold the border with France). The wood surface is hands is surrounded by rhinestones on the bezel. The painted with flowers and at the bottom front are movement is signed but will only run for a minute and two lovers sitting in a garden. The images are a does not strike despite warning. Nonetheless, with a bit dark but still visible. There also are painted little effort I believe this could be a very nice example. flowers on the sides of the case, and the entire $150-$250. case is lacquered and has a lovely antique patina.

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417. $100 wear and tarnish. The pendulum bob is patterned, the weights Gustav Becker spring-driven Vienna, ca. 1900. The need to be polished. Unfortunately, the signed movement will not clock is 37 inches with a new door glass, two side run. The serial number dates it to 1880-85. $200-$400. glasses, and a signed Becker 8-day, time and strike movement that is running and striking on a single 423. $200 rod. The strike hammer needs to be adjusted and Gustav Becker 2-weight Vienna Regulator, 1875-1880. A the tolerances are close between the pendulum (a 50-inch Vienna in good condition but with a replaced possible replacement) and the rod. The crest is a crest. The case is rather simple and the crest is not quite nice replacement. Looks good, clean and unmarred. a match, and may be hand-made. The door glass is mod- $150-$250. ern, the two-part porcelain dial is good, the hands are period. The two weights are very tarnished, the bob is 418. $50 shiny. The 8-day time-and-strike movement is running Gustav Becker box clock, ca. 1926. A 30-inch mahogany and striking. $200-$300. case with a convex dial glass and three door glasses, the center glass beveled. The silver and brass dial 424. $125 shows some wear, the hands may be replacements. Schlenker & Kienzle free-swinger wall clock, ca. 1910. The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed “GB This 30-inch walnut case holds an 8-day time and half- Silesia” and is running and striking on a wire gong. The hour strike movement with the Schlenker & Kienzle pendulum appears to be a replacement, as it does not logo patented in 1908. The case is in good condition quite fit the hanger. Some chips to the veneer. $50- with only the top center finial a replacement; the dial $150. glass is old. The two-part dial shows its age and has an embossed design in the brass center; the pendulum is 419. $100 similarly embossed. The clock is running and striking. CH. Hour oval French carriage clock, ca. 1900. A 5-inch $150-$250. tall oval carriage with five beveled glasses, very dirty on the inside, with a platform movement that runs 425. $100 briefly. The door is not firmly attached and there are S. Marti oval crystal regulator, ca. 1900. This brass some chips to that glass. Signed on back “CH. Hour, case is 10.25 inches tall with four bowed and beveled France, 11 jewels”. No key, but a common clock key glasses and a decorated porcelain dial with pierced will work. $100-$200. brass hands. The brass is a bit dull, especially on top; there is a hairline in the dial and a chip at the strike 420. $200 winding arbor. The glasses are good. The signed pen- French carved shelf clock, ca. 1890? This walnut case dule de Paris 8-day, time-and-strike movement is is 24 inches tall in a clean and attractive finish. The 5- signed and running, regulated by a two-vial mercury pendulum. It inch dial is brass with a gilded center behind a bev- strikes the hours and half-hours. $100-$200. eled flat glass. There is an 8-day, time-and-strike movement signed with a logo I do not recognize and 426. $75 cannot find online. If you know the maker please let Japy Freres black marble figural, ca. 1880. The me know! It is running and striking on a brass bell. black marble case is 17 inches wide and 13.5 $200-$400. inches tall with a figure of Galileo(?) and his assorted paraphernalia; he may be in the origi- 421. $200 nal finish. The marble case shows considerable Gustav Becker wall clock, ca. 1890. This is an unu- pitting along the edges and on top. The porce- sual German clock, about 30 inches tall and 24 lain dial is behind a flat glass; note that the inches wide, in a walnut case with lots of intricate hands do not match. The signed pendule de Paris movement is out carvings. The case has been cleaned but is not of plumb but will run after adjustment; it strikes the nickel bell on immaculate. The signed Becker movement is the hours and half-hours. $50-$150. running, but the strike hammer has broken off and is taped to the back of the movement. The 427. $100 silver and brass dial shows some wear. It is run- Junghans bracket chime, ca. 1920? The oak case is 18 inches tall with ning, pendulum-regulated, but of course not strik- a thick beveled glass in the door and a brass and sil- ing (although it tries). The top piece has been broken and repaired, vered dial in reasonable shape. The case needs a bit of the repair is not noticeable; the carvings on the left side were at- attention and shows some wear marks on the top. tacked by wood worms but the infestation is no longer active. $200 The movement is signed “Junghans” and will run with- -$400. out problem but will not strike or chime. There are five chime rods waiting for the chime and strike to be 422. $200 set free. $150-$250. Gustav Becker 3-weight Vienna Regulator, 1880-1885. A 50-inch Vienna with significant restoration. Both the 428. $50 top and the bottom are modern replacements, both Junghans bracket chime, ca. 1920? Like #427 but with nicely done but the bottom does not match the case a dark mahogany case, 16.5 inches tall. There is a closely enough to suit me. The crest is a better match. beveled glass in the door and a brass and silvered dial That said, it looks good under less than photo lighting. in reasonable shape. The finish is alligatored and The two-part brass and silvered dial shows considerable there are some chips and wear. The movement is

35 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures signed “Junghans” but will not run, strike, or chime on the five fusee movement is running once carefully leveled. chime rods. This one needs serious attention all around. $50-$100. The brass skeleton and marble base are in fine condi- tion, the glass dome is cracked on one side but stable 429. $50 and probably glued together. As the cracks are at the French oval crystal regulator, ca. 1900. A 12-inch brass bottom side, they are not very distracting. $250-$500. case badly tarnished. Four curved glasses, left side and back with significant corner chips. Clean one-piece porcelain dial and plain hands. The unsigned 8-day, 435. $175 time-and-strike movement is running but not striking. Black Forest deer-head cuckoo, ca. 1900? This 22-inch tall $50-$125. cuckoo (12 inches deep) holds an unsigned brass 30-hour movement that is running and striking on the half-hours 430. $250 and hours; the cuckoo bird door opens and the bird sings Carl Werner open-well Vienna, ca. 1880. A 35-inch open-well Vienna its song. I don’t see any losses to the wood carvings and in an intricately carved oak case. The case has proba- the deer has glass eyes. The hands are not bone and have bly been cleaned, if not refinished. The two-part been painted white. Nice carved pendulum. It all looks porcelain dial is in good condition with period hands old to me, but I am not a cuckoo clock expert by any and a R/A pendulum. Note the carving in the frame means. $150-$250. on the back wall and how the dial door opens and folds back to give access to the movement. The 8- 436. $900 day, time-and-strike movement has the Carl Werner Black Forest edelweiss cuckoo, ca. 1860. An ornate- logo; it is running and striking the wire gong on the ly carved cuckoo, 24 inches tall by 15 inches wide hour and half-hour. A nice example of this style. $250 with a brass 30-hour movement that is running and -$500. striking on the hours and half-hours. The cuckoo bird is singing. No losses to the carvings depicting a 431. $250 cabin with a goat and pine trees; there are also Japy Freres & Co. bow-front crystal regulator, ca. goats on top and many delicately carved edelweiss 1900. A 15-inch crystal regulator with a beautiful flowers. The hands are bone and there is a carved finish and little wear. There are four beveled glasses pendulum. A nice example. $900-$1200. in excellent condition with the front glass bowed. The one-piece porcelain dial is decorated and has 437. $125 blue numbering; there are two fancy pierced gold Black Forest deer-head cuckoo, ca. 1950? This 21-inch hands. The case and dial are marked Made in tall cuckoo is relatively modern. The leaf carvings are a France; the signed Japy Freres & Co. movement bit less ornate; the hands are plastic, the numerals are runs weakly and will need attention. It strikes on the hour and half- painted on the dial. The deer head on top has glass hour. The pendulum contains mercury. A higher end French regula- eyes. The 30-hour brass movement is running and tor. $250-$450. striking on the hours and half-hours, and the cuckoo is singing. A carved leaf pendulum. $125-$225. 432. $150 Charles Henri brass table clock, ca. 1880. A 15-inch 438. $250 pierced brass clock with cartouche numbers behind a German Chalet animated musical cuckoo (new). slightly convex beveled glass. The finish is good with This is a new clock manufactured in Germany; you little evidence of wear. The signed (CH les Mt) pendule can find it for sale online for around $550. It is just de Paris is running, delicately, and striking the hours over 13 inches tall and 12.5 inches wide and is deco- and half-hours on a nickel bell. $150-$300. rated with Swiss and Black Forest figures and items. The 30-hour brass movement strikes the hours and 433. $200 half-hours and the cuckoo bird chimes in; after the French portico, ca. 1890. A 17-inch walnut portico clock with exten- strike the dancing figures on the top turn while the sive satinwood inlays on the front top and base. The music box plays two songs alternately, Der Fröliche veneer is very good with just one small chip at the Wanderer and Edelweiss. The woodcutter on the back right. The four columns have gilded endcaps, lower right chops as the clock strikes the hours and the waterwheel the bezel is machine-turned and bright. The porce- on the lower left turns while the dancers dance. Adorable. $250- lain dial has several cracks and some small chips, the $500. pierced hands are bright, and it sits behind a convex glass. There is a delicate gold pendulum. The un- 439. $250 signed pendule de Paris movement will only run for a West German hunter cuckoo, ca. 1970. The 30-hour minute or two and will strike a wire gong on the movement is stamped “West Germany” and the con- hours. The gong base is stamped “FK”. I think a dition suggests a relatively recent origin. It is 23 inch- little attention and patience would get this guy running. $250-$400. es in length with the impressive antlers on the deer head; there is also the iconic rabbit and pheasant 434. $250 hanging from the sides with a hunter’s horn wrapping English skeleton clock, ca. 1880? I see no indication of a maker on the dial. This is a good quality case with well carved this 13-inch uncomplicated skeleton clock (16 inch with dome). The decorations. The hands are plastic, the dial has raised pierced dial is silvered with black Roman numerals, the hands seem numbering. The brass movement is running and strik- mismatched and inappropriate, but easily replaced. The single- ing, and the cuckoo bird is popping out and chirping

36 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures on the hours and half-hours. Note that the antlers are plastic. $250- cate it was made after 1840 or so. Winterhalder made $500. clocks for the English market. This is also known as a wag-on-wall clock, given the wide swing of the long pen- 440. $75 dulum. The clock is 12 inches across with a walnut rim “Onion Boy swinger” ca. 1980? I believe this is a modern and a convex glass over the dial. The hands may be orig- (Chinese?) reproduction of the Junghans “Onion Boy” inal. It is running and striking like a champ; it is a one-day swinger clock. It stands just under 14 inches tall on a clock. There aren’t a lot of examples of clocks like this dark wood base, unsigned. The metal casting has a on the internet; I’m guessing $150-$300. bronze appearance. The backwind clock has a Junghans logo on the front; I believe the dial cover is plastic. It is 500. $60 running and swinging nicely. $75-$150. Four US Time Corp. “Waterbury” alarm clocks, ca. 1944-1969. Sporty 441. $75 looking alarms with rounded solid- Unknown Vienna regulator, modern. This 38-inch Vienna color rims and matching paper is made of walnut but the woods are not well matched, dials, 5.5 inches high, on nickel as you can note color differences between pieces. It was stands. Colors are deep green, maroon, tan, and cobalt blue; I think likely made in the last 50 years. The lower glass is bev- these are the only colors they produced, so you get the full set for eled, the dial glass flat. The brass dial is enameled, the 8- one money, as the auctioneer says. The colored rims and dials are day, time-and-strike movement has a logo I do not recog- all in excellent shape, only the green alarm has a rust stain on the nize (see photo). There is no label. It is running and dial from the alarm hand. The backs are nickel with some rust, and striking, but it is not a particularly high-quality move- some have replaced winding knobs. Glass dials and white or nickel ment. $100-$200. hands, some with lume. They are 30-hour alarm clocks, some will run and some need help. US Time was the follow-up company to 442. $250 the Waterbury Clock Company and was renamed Timex in 1969. $75 C.E. Petit French inlay portico, ca. 1900. A 19.5-inch -$100. tall French portico in excellent condition. The wood grain and blond inlays are unmarred and intact. The 501. $100 front twisted columns are painted, there is a brass Seth Thomas “Engine Lever” ca. 1910. I believe this cast bezel and an elaborate cast brass pendulum is an early (WWI) vintage ship’s clock, only 4.75 with a center inset. The porcelain dial does show inches in diameter with a 3-inch silvered dial in a some light hairlines and the top piece needs to be brass case with a screw bezel and a seconds bit. It glued down. French trefoil hands. The signed 8-day is smaller than any ship’s clock shown in Ly’s books pendule de Paris movement is running and striking on Seth Thomas clocks. Engine lever means time the nickel bell on the hours and half-hours. A very only, screw bezel indicates waterproof. The dial shows scratching nice example, probably from early in the last century. $250-$400. and oxidation and is labeled “U.S. Navy Boat Clock”. I did not in- spect the movement, but it is running. $100-$200. 443. $250 Schlenker & Kienzle bracket chime, ca 1908. An 18.5-inch mahogany 502. $20 case with a repoussé brass and silvered dial and a Gilbert “1807 8 Day” shelf clock, ca. 1930’s? This is a five-rod Westminster chime. The case shows a few relatively large backwind clock, almost 9 inches tall, nicks and some wear but is nicely figured with flut- made of wood with tin strips running up across the ed columns and carvings. The door glass is old and face and top. It is painted in black lacquer; the dial beveled. The signed movement is running and strik- glass is convex, the signed dial silvered with raised ing but the hammers are not hitting the rods numbers and brass hands. It has a nice art deco look but doesn’t properly and will need adjustment. It strikes the run. $25-$75. hours on the fifth rod. $250-$500. 503. $20 444. $150 New Haven “Chime-Call” alarm clock, ca. 1930? This metal case Jannin Morbier, ca. 1880? A Morbier clock with a brass alarm is 6.25 inches high, painted black with silver trim, with a con- repousse dial with painted flowers and a signed porcelain vex dial glass and a painted dial signed “Old Kentucky Home” and dial. There are numerous hairlines in the dial as well as manufactured by B.H. & M. Co. Inc., Louisville, KY. The chips; it is signed “Jannin, á Thizy” over a small floral B.H. & M. company was Belknap Hardware & Manufac- embellishment. Thizy is a small town near Lyon, France. turing, a large hardware distributer in Louisville in the th The gold hands are likely replacements. The metal case first half of the 20 Century. This is a one-day alarm sits on a modern metal bracket with two 8-lb oblong that is running and keeping time, if you care to wind it. weights that I think are modern replacements. The pen- The painted finish shows considerable wear. $25-$50. dulum is made from folding metal strips. It is running and striking a large iron bell on top on the hours and half- 504. $40 hours. $150-$300. Jefferson Electric “bullet” clocks, ca. 1960. Two small electric desk clocks, 5 inches high with 3-inch dials. The gold 445. $150 clock is the Model 880, an uncommon model Winterhalder “Postman” wall clock, ca. 1870. Winterhalder is that runs on two AA batteries. The dial glass is signed on the painted wooden dial; the wooden plate movement convex with gold numerals and hands, and a confirms its German/Black Forest origin and the metal arbors indi- white second hand. It is signed at the bottom of

37 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures the black dial. The gold mirror finish is good but not perfect and is case is brass, the back steel with some rust, the dial cover is glass. brushed gold around the dial. The clock runs fast, perhaps today’s “Squareclox” are shown on pages 56-58 of Ly’s book Ansonia Clocks batteries do not match those available in 1960. The chrome clock is & Watches. Alarm setting is shown in inset dial. Running. $10-$50. the “500” model, much more common. It runs on household cur- rent; the cord is wrapped under the base. It has a flat glass dial with 511. $10 gold numbers and lines, signed at the bottom, and a corrugated Waterbury “Call”, New Haven “Beacon” alarm clocks, ca. 1910. black dial with gold hands and a red second hand. It is running and Round nickel-cased alarms with a bell on top and a carrying handle, keeping good time, and the finish is excellent. You can read more 6.5 inches tall. Both have signed paper dials, glass covers, and alarm about these clocks at Roger Russell’s webpages. $75-$125. set dials on the front (the alarm hand has fallen off and is behind the glass on the New Haven 505. $25 alarm), and noticeable oxidation and ageing. Jennings Bros. Mfg. Co. gilded dresser clock, ca. 1910. Waterbury is running, New Haven is not and is A 4.5-inch metal case, originally gilded with typical missing some backwind handles. Both are 30- wear, holding a backwind one-day time-only movement hour clocks. $10-$50. with a seconds bit. The signed porcelain dial is perfect, the three hands correct, and it is running. $25-$50. 512. $10 Four small clocks. 1) Lux “Claridge” painted metal alarm clock, 4.5 506. $100 inches tall, glass convex cover over dial. Chipping and rust on base, Waterbury Clock Co. “Spider”, ca 1900. A glass cylinder clock, 3.75- runs briefly. 2) Honeywell 8-day, 7-jewel clock/mechanical regulator, inches high with the handle up and 2.5-inches deep, in a brass not running, winds with standard clock key, missing back knobs, 3- frame. Waterbury made several small clocks in this inch diameter, heavy. 3) Westclox “Big Ben”, black painted metal style, including the Bogie and the Hornet. The brass is case in bad shape, 5.5 inches tall, badly dam- in good shape here with a few spots of oxidation; the aged plastic dial cover. But it’s running! 4) dial glass is beveled, the cylinder glass without chips. Westclox “Big Ben” from late 1960’s with The porcelain dial is signed, the hands correct. The metal case and bezel, black dial, plastic cover. spring on the 8-day movement is either broken or unat- Decent condition if cleaned. Running. $10- tached so it is not running, the time setting knob is $50. missing. These typically sell on eBay for around $150. $100-$150. 513. $200 507. $250 Chelsea Clock Co. for Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co. Electric Advertiser Clock, ca. 1970? A 15-inch “Base and Ball Feet”, 1905-1909. A 6-inch tall (3.5- “double bubble” (two-glass) backlit dial clock inch dial) brass lever clock, time only, 8-days. Bai- advertising Meadow Gold milk. Clock is in good ley, Banks & Biddle Co. on the silvered dial, with condition, is running and the two 7.5 W bulbs some wear. Some tarnish to the case but no abra- work. Made by Advertising Products, Inc., Cincin- sions. Movement is signed and with serial number nati OH. A couple of recent sales at Rich Penn 21343. Running. Auctions for $275-$350. 514. $150 508. $50 Seth Thomas “Helmsman Combination”, Jefferson Electric Co. “Golden Hour”, 1951. The ever-intriguing ar- ca. 1970. Chrome-plated clock and barom- chetype mystery clock, 9 inches high with a 7-inch dial. A very good eter in separate bases of solid walnut, finish on this clock, with some spotting on the back each with 4-inch silver-plated dials. The and a little wear on the top of the ring. You can’t clock is an 8-day, 7-jewel lever movement scrub these clocks too aggressively or you remove the striking ships bells; you gotta be a sailor to gold finish. The finish on the hands is a bit rougher appreciate. If you aren’t don’t worry, the clock is self-correcting so than I like. The clock is dated to November 1951 inside it will always strike correctly. It is running and striking. Cases are the base; there is the usual red plastic cover on the 8.75 inches in diameter, the base is 13 inches long. Barometer has a bottom. It is running and keeping time, but a bit noisy; high-grade compensated movement (whatever that means). $150- it quiets down after a while. The electric cord is old. $50-$100 on $300. eBay. $55-$100. 515. $75 509. $10 MasterCrafters “Swinging Playmates”, introduced in Ingersoll “Weather Alarm”, ca. 1936. Painted metal case, 4.75 x 4.75 1952. This is a popular example of the electric novelty inches square with a plastic dial cover over what appears to be a clocks produced by MasterCrafters out of Chicago after paper dial; includes a glass bulb thermometer and a World War II. The two children swing opposite to each sealed liquid barometer. There also is an alarm that other; there is a light above with a switch on the right sets on the back. Running. Not sure I would trust the for night. The kids are swinging, the clock is running, barometer, but the thermometer looks correct. Pa- and I see no damage to the 9.5-inch plastic case. A new- tent date of 1936 on the top of the dial. $10-$50. er cord with an old-style plug. $75-$150.

510. $10 516. $50 Ansonia “Square Pirate” Advertiser alarm clock, ca. MasterCrafters “Swingtime”, introduced in 1951. Here 1923. A 4 x 3.5-inch metal alarm clock, 30-hour, adver- just a girl swings in a 10.5-inch plastic case. There is a tising Star brand shoes on the yellowed paper dial. The light inside with a knob on the right, the girl is swinging

38 Antique American Clocks – July 2020 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures and the clock is running, no damage to the case. Old cord and plug; lit from behind and is working, the clock is running. the girl needs a bath. $50-$100. It was likely made by Advertising Products, Inc. out of Cincinnati, but I see no label; I did not open it up. 517. $45 The back of the case is metal, it is 4 inches deep. MasterCrafters “Fireplace”, 1948-1977. A 10.5-inch plas- You know you like it, it likes you! These clocks sell tic case, slightly dull, with a flaming fireplace created by on eBay for $130 and up. $100-$200. a turning drum, I believe. The fire is lit, the clock is run- ning, and I see no damage to the case. Cord and plug 523. $25 good. $50-$100. Herschede electric chime tambour, ca. 1920. A 10.5-inch high by 20.5 -inch wide tambour with an electric synchro- 518. $150 nous motor and a back-up self-wind movement MasterCrafters “Merry-Go-Round”, introduced in 1952. that operates during current interruptions. The A 10.5-inch plastic case with a merry-go-round that case has an interesting alternating grain pat- should turn; unfortunately, it does not, and the Ses- tern on the front, molded trim and feet, and a sions clock does not run, although it wants to. Might silvered dial with wear and soiling behind a convex beveled glass. just need a good shaking. The case is dull in places and The cord to plug in the clock in back is missing so I could not test it; the ride needs cleaning. This is a rare model. $150-$250. one of the four chime rods needs to be reattached. $25-$100.

519. $100 524. $400 Wm. Gilbert art deco metal case clock, ca. 1925? This clock is not in LeCoultre “Atmos Model 528-6”, 1960-1980. This Ly’s book on Gilbert clocks and not in the later supplement. The model has the serial number 157513 and is 9.25 inch- heavy nickel-plated case is 18.5 inches tall in an art deco, 1920’s es tall and 8.25 inches wide. The brass finish is style. But I’m not even convinced it started out as a clock. The case bright, the glasses clear, the dial clean and un- seems to have been designed for something else; the marred. The adhesive on the front of the base can door handle screws into the case. The door glass is likely be removed with a bit of rubbing alcohol. I new, and the design on the glass looks more appropri- don’t test Atmos clocks, you’re on your own there. ate for a round dial. The painted metal dial is new as $400-$600. well, and is labeled Gilbert Clocks. The back of the case is old wood, but no label, inside or out. The 525. $250 movement is a Gilbert-labeled movement with nickel LeCoultre “Atmos Model 526-5”, 1950-1960. An front plates, 8-day time-and-strike. It is running and earlier model with the serial number of 94217, 8.75 striking with a nice nickel pendulum. Somebody deco- inches tall by 7 inches wide. The brass is tarnished, rated the gong mount. If someone knows the story here please let the right-side glass is chipped/cracked in the upper me know. $100-$200. left corner, and there is a service plaque that is screwed on. Dial and hands ok. Movement untest- 520. $25 ea. ed. $250-$500. Western Clock Co. backwind dresser clocks, ca. 1910. Two nearly identical cast metal clocks, 10.5 inches tall and 8.5 inches wide. Each 526. $150 has been repainted, the one on the left (A) more recently. Both Swift & Anderson Inc. lever clock and barom- hold 30-hour time-only backwinds and both are running. The one eter, ca. 1970? An 8-day jeweled lever move- on the right (B) is signed on the paper dial “The Western Clock Mfg. ment made in West Germany by August Co., LaSalle, Ill, USA”; A is not signed on the Schatz & Sohne for Swift & Anderson Inc. in dial or movement. Both have had the left Boston. It is running and striking ship’s bells on schedule. There is foot broken off and reattached; both have a an on/off lever to silence the strike if you are a landlubber. The beveled glass. Bid on A and/or B separately; white enamel dial is clean, behind a beveled, slightly convex glass. if you bid on both let me know if you only There are spots of corrosion to the brass case. The compensated want one, and which one. $25-$50/apiece. barometer may or may not be working in a matching case. Both are 7 inches in diameter and 4 inches high. I found one recent sale 521. $50 online for $160. $150-$200. United Clock Co. “Model 550 Covered Wagon”, ca 1955. This is the most collectable of the United Clock Co. novelty clocks. This one is 527. $125 not in perfect condition, however. As you can see, there are paint Western Germany ship’s wheel clock and ba- spots on the wooden base; the reins have been replaced, I believe, rometer, ca. 1947? A ship’s wheel lever move- and the driver’s whip is missing. His right arm can be turned on or ment clock with a 4-inch silvered dial in an 8- off to raise and lower the whip, but it isn’t inch brass case. It is running and striking working. The clock is working and the ship’s bells, and can be silenced with a lever on the left side of the light, controlled by a push button on the dial. Note that one handle at the 8 is missing. The barometer is in a back, does work. These sell for over $100 matching case; both have beveled flat glasses and considerable on eBay when in better condition. $450- tarnish/corrosion to the brass. No maker indicated, I did not open $100. the cases, but it says “made in Western Germany” on the back of both. I think that implies post WWII manufacture before 1949 when 522. $100 West Germany became a country. $125-$250. Electric 7-Up advertiser clock, ca. 1970. This electric advertiser is 16 inches square with a gold plastic frame and a white plastic face. It is

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528. $50 901. $50 Salem Clock Co. “Ship’s Bell”, 1968. The Salem Clock Co. of Hartford Large weights for 8-day clocks. 2.5 inches square at CT used German movements in their ship’s clocks; I base; 5.5 inches tall, 7 lb each. did not open the case to inspect the movement here. The clock is running but the strike does not 902. $50 shut off, so it is silenced by the lever at the top. Large weights for 8-day clocks. 3.125 inches across, There is something rattling around inside as well. 2.125 inches deep, 5 inches tall, 8 lb each. The case is 4.25 inches in diameter and there is an inscription on the rim “Ens. & Mrs. H. Lawrence Ser- 903. $50 ra, Jr.” with “2-17-68” at the bottom. It is an 8-day jeweled move- Large weights for 8-day clocks. 3.5 inches across, 2.25 ment. I believe that this had a private rather than military use. $50- inches deep, 5.5 inches tall, 8 lb each. $100. 904. $50 WATCHES Large weights for 8-day clocks. 2.5 inches square at base; 6.5 inches tall, 9 lb each. 800. $100 Hamilton Watch Co. “Trent”, 1955-1969. A manual- 905. $50 wind wristwatch in 10 kt white gold fill with Hamil- Large weights for 8-day clocks. 2.25 inches square at ton’s high-grade 770 22-jewel movement, a quar- base; 5.5 inches tall, 7 and 9 lb each. One weight is lead. tered brushed silver dial with applied white gold markers and numerals, and a sub-seconds dial. 906. $50 New glass crystal and black leather band. Stain- Large weights for 8-day clocks. 3 inches across, 2 inch- less steel back, running and keeping time. $150- es deep, 5 inches tall, 6.5 lb each. These are modern $300. weights.

801. $75 907. $25 Hamilton Watch Co. “Gary”, 1951-1953. A manual- Small weights for 30-hour clocks. 2 inches across, 3 wind wristwatch in 10 kt yellow gold fill with a 17- inches tall, 2.5 lb each. jewel Grade 747 movement. Silver two-tone dial, seconds bit, applied gold numerals. Light wear to 908. $25 glass crystal and black leather band. Signed on Small weights for 30-hour clocks. 2.25 inches across, back and dial. Running and keeping time. $100- 3.5 inches tall, 3 lb each. Weights do not match in $200. style.

802. $25 909. $50 Skagen Denmark electric watch, Model 39LSS, ca. Groaner weights. 3 inches across, 2.5 inches deep, 3 1995. An early Skagen watch, 34 mm across and 35 inches tall, 4.5 lb each. mm lug to lug, with a matte silver dial, pencil hands, and a mirrored rim. Steel fine mesh straps with a 910. $10 double clasp. Quartz movement. Running and keep- “The Clock Mender” by Norman Rockwell, 1945. A 9 x 11- ing time. This sold for around $100 in 1995. $50-$100. inch color image behind glass in an 11 x 14-inch black plas- tic frame. 803. $10 Hamilton Watch Co. Woman’s art deco watch, ca. 911. $5 1928. Women’s watches are not considered collect- Clock Guide – Identification with Prices, Robert W. Miller, able, but I like the style on this one. It’s 18 mm across 1981. Softcover, 147 pages, lots of color and B/W photos and 30 mm lug to lug, in a stepped 14 kt white gold-fill and brief descriptions. case with chasing on the sides and around the glass crystal. A clean white signed dial and proper hands. A 912. $10 17 jewel Grade 989 movement that runs and stops intermittently. Calendar Clocks, Tran Duy Ly, 1993. Hardcover, 360 pag- No strap. $25-$75. es, B/W photos, essential for calendar clock collectors.

913. $10 PARTS AND BOOKS The American Clock, William H. Distin & Robert Bishop, 1983. “A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey 1723-1900, with 900. $10 a Listing of 6,153 Clockmakers.” Hardcover w/ dust jack- New replacement cupids, finished in gold. They are 4.5 et, 359 pages, color and B/W photos. Essential for early inches tall and solid white metal. Work on any mirrorside clock collectors. clock. 914. $10 Weights are associated with specific clocks and the winning bidders of Encyclopedia of Antique American Clocks, Robert W. & those clocks have right of first refusal to purchase these weights at Harriett Swedberg, 2001. Softcover, 335 pages, mostly the indicated price. B/W photos, good introduction to clocks and history. Good for new collectors.

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915. $5 927. $10 The Dictionary of American Clock & Watch Makers, Ken- Wooden dial board. 12 inches wide, 11.25 inches tall, neth A. Sposato, 1983. Hardcover w/ dust jacket, 192 3.5 inches center to winding port, 3 inches between pages, lists makers, addresses, and period active. ports.

916. $5 928. $10 The Greek Revival Influence on American Clock Case Design Wooden dial board. 12.5 inches wide, 11.5 inches tall, and Empire Clock Case Development, Lee H. Davis, 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches be- NAWCC Bulletin Supplement 18, Spring 1991. Softcover, tween ports. 112 pages, many B/W photos, somewhat technical. 929. $10 917. $5 Wooden dial board, modern. 12 inches wide, 12 inches From Rags To Riches To Rags, The Story of Chauncey Je- tall, 2.5 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches be- rome, Chris H. Bailey, NAWCC Bulletin Supplement #15, tween ports. On plywood, no back supports. Spring 1986. Softcover, 132 pages, B/W photos, largely historical. 930. $25 Seth Thomas Office Calendar No. 1 door. The 918. $10 single OG style, 40.5 inches long and stripped of Wooden dial board. 12.5 inches wide, 11.25 inches tall, its veneer. The newer glasses are nonreflective 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches be- and the mirror is a recent replacement. $25-$50. tween ports. 931. $50 919. $10 French white onyx case and sidepieces, ca. Wooden dial board. 12.25 inches wide, 11.5 inches tall, 1878. A 10-inch tall case with a brass frieze, 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches be- column capitals and plinths, with two tween ports. matching side-pieces with brass trim. The case is in better than average condition 920. $10 with no major cracks or chips. This clock Wooden dial board. 12.25 inches wide, 11.5 inches tall, arrived damaged and we are selling the case and the movement 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches between separately. $50-$100. ports. 932. $25 921. $10 S. Marti pendule de Paris movement, ca. 1878. An 8-day time and Wooden dial board. 12 inches wide, 11.25 inches tall, half-hour strike movement, signed. The 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches between movement broke off its porcelain dial during ports. shipping #931. I believe it could be mounted to a replacement dial; the dial that it came 922. $10 with is likely unusable but will be included. Wooden dial board. 12.5 inches wide, 11.5 inches tall, The speed adjustment rod, pendulum, hands, and back door will be 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches be- included. $25-$75. tween ports. 933. $10 923. $10 Spelter figural statue, ca. 1890? This 18-inch tall classical Wooden dial board. 12.5 inches wide, 11.5 inches tall, woman figural retains the original gold paint and stands 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches be- on an ornate black base. She has a book open on a tween ports. stand beside her. There is a screw-in opening on the back right that looks like it was made for a light bulb or 924. $10 gas lamp fixture. If cleaned/repainted this would be Wooden dial board. 12.25 inches wide, 11.25 inches nice. $10-$25. tall, 2.75 inches center to winding port, 3.5 inches between ports. 934. $10 ea Clock topper figurals, ca. 1900. Four clock toppers 925. $10 made of spelter metal and finished in bronze (the Wooden dial board. 12 inches wide, 11.5 inches tall, warriors) or gilding (the women figurals). They are all 2.25 inches center to winding ports; groaner move- 8-9 inches tall. All are dusty and need a bath; the ment. Alarm winding port added. finish is worn on all of them. Note that the second warrior (D) is missing a spear from his raised hand. 926. $10 Indicate which one(s) (A-D) that you want on your bid Wooden dial board. 11.75 inches wide, 11.25 inches tall, sheet. $10-$25. 2.25 inches center to winding ports; groaner move- ment. Thanks for shopping with Antique American Clocks!

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