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Antique American Clocks JANUARY 2021 Sealed bid auction How does this work? This is a blind, or sealed-bid auction. You submit a bid sheet with the maximum price you wish to pay for an item by the close of the auc- tion (January 31). If you are the high bidder you win the item! You will be notified if you have won the item at the close of the auction and will have 15 business days to make payment by check or credit card through PayPal. Extended payment plans are available. See the Detailed Instructions for more information. There is a 10% buy- er's premium on all sales. Who can I contact Todd Porter, 2400 Shady Oak Pl., Lexington, KY 40515 with questions? (859) 312-9012 email: [email protected] Website: AntiqueAmericanClocks.com Antique American Clocks – January 2021 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures 1. $5000 running and striking. The walnut-veneered case is 98 Wm. Gilbert “Regulator No. 7”, ca. 1881. An 8.5-foot inches tall and has been stripped but not finished; standing regulator in walnut with burl panels on the there are some places where the 300-year old veneer front door and base, a carved top and a pressed has been repaired, and some spots where it needs to wood figurehead. All the parts and trim are there, be glued down. On the top right and left side are cut- top to bottom, and everything looks original. The outs that I think should be covered with a grill cloth; finish is clean and bright. The dial is porcelain with the glasses in the hood door and sides are old. The three correct hands, the trim brass along with a brass dial has a matted center, a calendar window, a brass weight and jeweler’s pendulum. The front and second’s dial, and is signed “Andries Vermeulen ~ side glasses are old, the jeweler’s regulator move- Amsterdam” at the bottom. The arched moon dial ment is Swiss. It is running just fine. A great exam- has a hand indicator that rotates with the dial and ple; one sold last September in Houston for $6000 points to one of 12 labeled divisions on the brass and it had incorrect finials and replaced trim, as well frame, but I don’t know what the labels mean as a 27% buyer’s premium. Delivery to the eastern (“pistolet”?). I believe the hand is supposed to flip half of the US for $500. $6000-$9000. back when it completes a half-circle. The moon dial also has two number rings, one of which is numbered 2. $550 1-12. Lacking a horological degree, I have no clue what they mean. Scottish tall case clock, ca. 1850? An 86-inch 8-day, There are two old cast iron weights and there should be a third for tall case clock from Robertson in Glasgow (signed on the chime arbor, but it is not strung because the musical mechanism the bottom of the dial) in flame mahogany with band- is incomplete. This is a very old clock, highly collectable, but will ed inlay along the front edges, satinwood inlays, and need considerable attention to both the case and movement to get shell inlays in the top corners of the square bonnet. it presentable. $1000-$2500. There are some splits to the veneer on the sides. The polychrome dial is in excellent shape with figures of 5. $5000 handsomely dressed women from the 1600’s and Geo. B. Owen “Regulator No. 3”, ca. 1878. A second 1700’s, I think. The hands are elaborate, with a sec- example of this standing regulator (with #1), every onds and calendar dials; the dial glass is old and bit as spectacular, 9 feet tall in walnut with burled wavy. The 8-day time-and-strike movement has walnut trim on the door and base. This clock differs heavy brass plates and column posts and is unsigned; from #1 in that it has a nickel bezel, weight, and pen- it is running and striking a bell on top without issue. dulum, a burled panel on the back wall, and a “sub- Two 12-lb weights and a pendulum bob with a paint- base”, a 5-inch tall platform that appears to be origi- ed scene to match the dial. This seems like a reliable nal to the clock. The sub-base is not attached to the runner with an attractive look and sound. $600-$900. base and can be set aside if you like. Like #1, the glasses are old, the 12-inch dial is porcelain with cor- 3. $450 rect hands, including a seconds hand, and all the trim English tall case clock, ca. 1820? An eye-catching 85- pieces are present and appear to be original. The inch oak and mixed wood case (90 inches tall with Swiss jeweler’s regulator movement is running with- the old brass finial) from Wm Wainwright of Leices- out issue. Neither clock has a label or signature that ter (signed on the dial). The case has been cleaned I can find, and since the Owen catalog reprint I have and refinished; the darker wood inlays contrast nicely shows no differences between it and the Gilbert clock, I don’t know with the lighter oak and are further outlined by satin- that we can be sure who made either one (not surprising, as Owen wood line inlays. The polychrome metal dial shows ran the Gilbert Clock Co. concurrently with his own manufacturing scenes of pastoral England in the corners and on the operation). I have assigned makers based on what my consignors top arch; there is some loss of lettering and light told me. Carroll Horton sold this clock in 2018 for $9250. Delivery to staining on the dial. The brass hands are likely re- the eastern half of the US for $500. $6000-$9000. placements. The dial is a good match to the hood, but I wouldn’t guarantee that they have always been 6. $1600 together, as movements and cases frequently recom- Ansonia “Georgia”, ca. 1892. Nobody does black mantel clocks like bine. This is a one-day pull-up movement, time-and- Ansonia, and there are four outstanding examples in this auction. strike with calendar; it is running and striking but the The Georgia stands just over 13 inches tall and 17.5 inches wide with minute hand sticks occasionally. There is a smaller high relief alcoves and figures across the front and sides. Here the weight on the strike side to slow the strike. The dial alcoves are painted silver and the figures are in gold; you can find glass is new. Horton’s sold this clock in 2014 for $975. examples with bronze alcoves and gold alcoves all with contrasting $500-$1000. figures – see for example #7. The repainting was professionally done and shows; the iron case has also been re-lacquered. There is 4. $1000 a two-piece signed dial with a visible escapement behind a beveled Andries Vermeulen Dutch tall-case clock, ca. 1740. Vermeulen lived glass in the French sash; the pallets are and worked in Amsterdam in the early 1700’s and is regarded as the ruby. The 8-day movement is signed city’s best clockmaker of the period. His clocks are highly regarded with a rack and snail strike mechanism; and have been offered at several high-end American and European it is running and striking on a cathedral auction houses. You can find a smattering of his tall case clocks on gong without issue. There is no rear the internet, all having a similar case style and typically with compli- door. Schmitt’s sold a Georgia in 2017 cations; this one has a music cylinder attached to the third arbor for $2000; Horton’s sold one in 2016 for but, unfortunately, the comb is missing and thus cannot play. It is 1875. $1800-$2000. 2 Antique American Clocks – January 2021 Auction Visit AntiqueAmericanClocks.com for more pictures 7. $1600 gold hands. The pallets are steel. I cannot get this one to run, the Ansonia “Georgia”, ca. 1892. A second strike is frozen and the time spring is either unattached or broken. Georgia, this one in bronze with silver fig- The 8-day Ansonia movement is signed, and there is a cover over ures. This one has also been professionally the back door. A beautiful example nonetheless. $1200-$1800. repainted, but the case itself was not, and it shows a few small chips on the top and 11. $2500 edges. The dial on this example is a bit fan- E. Howard & Co. “No. 89 Regulator”, ca. 1889. Sixty- cier, with cartouche numbers and fancy pierced hands. There is a five inches of solid oak with an old finish, and all finials thick beveled glass in the sash, the visible escapement has steel present and correct. The glass is replaced and the 12- pallets. The 8-day movement is signed with a rack and snail strike inch zinc dial repainted. The hands are Howard issue mechanism; it is running and striking on a cathedral gong without as is the huge pendulum bob, which shows some wear issue. There is no rear door. Horton’s sold this clock in 2015 for and corrosion. The 8-day time-only movement is $2500. $1800-$2000. signed but not running with much enthusiasm; the weight is a replacement. This clock is renowned for its 8. $1400 accurate time-keeping. This model in oak sells for Ansonia “Double Figure Swing”, ca. 1900. This $2000-$3000.

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