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July 2019 Catalog.PDF HORTON'S ANTIQUE CLOCKS JULY 2019 Sealed bid auction This is a blind, or sealed-bid auction. You submit a bid sheet with the How does this work? maximum price you wish to pay for an item by the close of the auc- tion (July 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, credit card, money order, or Paypal. Extended payment plans are available. See the Detailed Instructions for more information. There is a 15% buy- er's premium on all sales. Who can I contact Carroll Horton, 3864 Wyse Square, Lexington, KY 40510 with questions? (859) 381-8633 FAX (866) 591-6616 email: [email protected] Website: Hortonclocks.com Horton’s Antique Clocks – July 2019 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures 1. $1500 the quarter hours, and the hours on a cathedral gong. Only two English skeleton clock, an ordinary London other models made by ST used this same movement, the Hecla, and made clock with double fusees, scrolled design the wall clock, Marcy. The two-piece paper dial is a replacement and and fretted dial, ca 1860. It is a striking clock, has correct ST hands. Beautiful silver stenciled glass number of hours each hour, not “passing in the door, key lock on the side, and packaged in a strike” as they are commonly called, that you near perfect 22 ½” high oak case. Three quarter see on many English Skeleton clocks. The clock turned columns on the door and the back edges. is 15” high including the original wood base. The case has been lightly cleaned/polished but not With the original glass shade in place it is 20” to affect the nice original finish. In addition to the high. The 8-day movement is in perfect running nickel dial rings, other nickel accessories are two condition. All parts of the clock are original, nickel bells, cathedral gong base, pendulum hanger, with the possible exception of the winding key, and nickel pendulum bob with damascened circles of that we cannot be sure. The paint on the fretted dial is black, and all over. This model is a rare and superior clock that the pair of hands are black. The pendulum can be locked down always attracts collectors. We have not had an Atlas against the movement with a screw to the back plate. Note the in many auctions but when we have, they brought as much as unusual dome, the base of the four feet, the unusual wood base $2500. In recent years we have sold two or three of its mates, the with feet, and the cleanliness of the brass and chains. We could not Hecla, upwards of $3500. I am in great unhappiness when I have to find a name or mark anywhere on the clock. This clock, or one very list one this cheap. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 718. Books for $2500. nearly like it, is pictured in the book, “Skeleton Clocks”, by F. B. $1000-$1500. Royer-Collard. $750-$1000. 5. $3000 2. $1500 E. Howard, Boston, “Regulator No. 70”, ca 1880. Beautiful cherry Black Forest large and very rare carved cuckoo clock featuring a case, clean, polished, completely original and as near mint as any dog’s head at the bottom and a deer head on top, ca 1885. This is a Howard we have ever seen or sold. It is 32” high, has the original very large wall cuckoo that stands 30” high and is 22” wide. The eight-day, time only movement that is signed and run- carvings are outstanding with a great deal of at- ning briskly. The 12” painted dial is perfect, has good tention given to detail. We have sold a few cuck- painted lower glass with advertising. Both glasses are oos of this caliber and this one is the very best we original and the doors have proper latches. Correct have ever seen and is near mint considering how damascened pendulum bob and stick, pendulum tie fragile it is to hang, carry, or ship. Note the large down, weight baffle board, pulley, label inside, and the deer head with carved antlers, birds on the sides, original iron weight, all near perfect and original to this and the carved dogs head and horn at the bot- case. The weight is marked “70”. Ly-American, page tom. In between are leaves primarily. The large 123. We just do not get clocks any more original or dial has old numerals and bone hands. The ani- nicer. $3000-$4000. mals have glass eyes. The original carved antlers, pendulum and other attached parts are original 6. $750 and are of that period. The 8-day single fusee brass movement is Seth Thomas Clock Co. mantel clock, “Column”, functioning as intended. This clock sold just a few years ago for over ca 1847. This very early and very rare clock was $5000. $2000-$2500. involved in the evolution of Seth Thomas’s shelf and weight shelf clocks during the 1840-1870 peri- 3. $750 od. None of the “experts” that we exposed this E. O. Stennes, Weymouth, Mass. banjo clock, ca 1962. clock to have ever seen one like it and most fig- The original 8-day time only movement was made by ured it was an experimental/transition model be- Kilbourne & Proctor for Stennis. They also made move- tween the shelf spring driven models, ca 1840’s, ments for Campos and Wayne Cline. The pendulum, to the weight driven models, ca 1860’s. Refer- weight, dial, and hands, all appear to be original to the ence: Ly-Seth Thomas #1759-A, almost identical to case. The weight is old but the type used in the early our clock, and #1737, identical look but slightly larger and weight banjo clocks. Original mahogany case is almost 33 inch- driven. The “experts” tried to buy our clock leading me to think it es high, and it has the one good glass in the bezel but must be rare and valuable. The label has an address of “One State wood in the throat and base door. It has good brass Street” which dates the clock 1847-1849. The movement is signed, side rails and brass finial on top. The case is clean and “S Thomas / Plymouth, Conn.”, and the label is marked, “Seth Thom- polished. The painted metal dial is very nice and it does as / Plymouth Hollow, Conn.”. The 19-inch-high case is in very good not have any paint chipping. The bezel has a push but- condition but the mirror may be a replacement. The distance be- ton release on the side of the case. The hands are prob- tween the movement plates is larger than normal, the lyre shape is ably original. The brass pendulum has a tie down at the bottom. We slightly different, gearing is not standard, and the believe the clock to be straight and original. $1000-$1500. factory dial is original with opening to expose the movement. Certainly a very unusual clock, and run- 4. $900 ning. $1000-$2000. Seth Thomas Clock Co. deluxe mantel clock, “Atlas”, ca 1886. The factory code is stamped on the case back. There is also most of a 7. $350 black and gold label inside. This clock is top of the line for Seth Seth Thomas Clock Co., carved case weight clock, Thomas parlor clocks. It has a special three spring, 8-day, heavy “Putnam”, ca 1900. This is a popular weight clock movement, signed with the “ST” logo and “Seth Thomas, Thomas- reissued by Seth Thomas. The mahogany veneered ton, Ct”. The movement is running, and it strikes two nickel bells on case is 36 ¼ inches tall, expertly carved splat, half 2 Horton’s Antique Clocks – July 2019 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures columns and paw feet. The case has not been refinished but is very top and bottom tips of the case were replaced. I could only guess clean and polished. The only thing we notice is different since it was they were broken and had to be repaired. They look very nice, and manufactured is some paint flaking from the tablet scene. It has a most folks would not even notice the repairs if not for the fact that complete backboard label, unusual gong stand, large iron weights, the stain needs to be darkened. In fact, one of the auction houses in pendulum, and original dial and hands. The brass lyre movement is the northeast sold this clock a few years ago for clean and running and signed properly. It strikes the gong each hour over $3000 without mentioning the restoration. loud but deep tone. The door has a key lock, but no escutcheon or This little mahogany veneered case is only 24 inch- key. The beautifully carved case sells for half the money of a carved es tall, the veneer is good all over, and has a key case made just a few years earlier. The thing that gets my attention lock on the side, without a key. The upper dial has most on these old clocks, are the original screws holding the dial. been repainted, the bottom is original. Note the That tells me Bubba has not been working on the clock. Ly-Seth complete paper label on the back of the door. The Thomas #1721. $400-$600. 8-day movement was only used in this calendar model. The calendar mechanism is by Mix Brothers, 8.
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