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September 2015 Catalog.PDF HORTON'S ANTIQUE CLOCKS SEPTEMBER 2015 Sealed bid auction This is a blind, or sealed-bid auction. You submit a bid sheet with the maximum How does this work? price you wish to pay for an item by the close of the auction (September 30). 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. See the Detailed Instructions for more information. Who can I contact Carroll Horton, 3864 Wyse Square, Lexington, KY 40510 (859) 381-8633 FAX (866) 591-6616 with questions? email: [email protected] Website: Hortonclocks.com Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures 1. $600 bright clean bronze dial, and bronze capitals and bases on the four “E. Howard & Co. / Boston / 8 ¾” signed on the movement of this E. columns. There are inlay designs around the base, around the top Howard Mass. Shelf clock. This is not an old clock but a and even on the flat top, a place I have never seen inlay before. The reproduction. It could be a Howard reissue or a clock dial ring is silver and it has the original hands. The 15 day movement made by an unknown maker. It has the sense of a reis- is not signed but both the movement and elaborate bronze pendu- sue because of the quality of the work but I was not lum are marked, “921”, meaning the pendulum is original to the aware that Howard produced a Mass. shelf clock, origi- case. The 15 day movement is typical of most all French movements, nal or reissue. There is a Howard metal label on the round with outside count wheel, and nickel bell attached to the back of the door. The nickel dial plate and dial ring are movement. It is running now, but may be out of beat after shipping. high quality, not a home workshop fabrication. The 8 If I did not need to pare down my collection this one would stay in day time only movement is signed and very nice and the house a while. $750-$1000. high quality. Pendulum ball, wood stick, and metal hanging parts are the type Howard used. The mahoga- 1. $1300 ny case is 32.5 inches high, very clean and well-constructed. The French fire gilt bronze clock made during the French panel below the glass door is held with metal pins, not hinged, and Empire period around 1815. The large clock features a serves no purpose other than a place to store the winding key. I French artist with brush in hand. After the French Rev- don’t care who made it, it is extremely nice and a clock anyone olution the people desired clocks depicting the more would be proud to display in their home. $750-$1000. common man, not the French Royalty or Greek Gods. The 24 inch high case is immaculately clean and well 2. $1171 preserved having endured who knows what for 200 “J. Ives Patent / Accelerating Equalizing Lever years. The only shortcoming I see is the missing glass Spring / Birge & Fuller, / Bristol, Conn.” copied from over the back opening. The 5 inch square silver dial has the near complete label in this double steeple shelf bronze Roman Numerals and bronze hands, different than any we clock, ca 1845. This clock is more commonly called a have seen. The 15 day round, silk thread, French movement is not “wagon spring” clock. If you were ever a farmer signed and has a nickel bell attached to the movement, and strikes you know why it is called wagon spring. The 8 day half hours and hours. This rare early piece of art and mechanical movement is signed and strikes hours on a coil engineering is a clock you will want to keep and can be displayed in gong. The wagon spring movement is complete but any setting. $1500-$2000. I did not test it for running. To be honest it is far too complicated for anyone in my pay grade and I am 6. $110 hesitant to wind it. The 27.5 inch high mahogany “Gilbert Manf’g Co. / Winsted, Conn.”, copied from veneered case looks very nice, clean and polished, with minor ve- the complete paper label inside this Galush Maran- neer repairs on the base and a couple of other moldings. The origi- ville calendar clock, ca 1861. The perpetual calendar nal dial was repainted by the Dial House, hands are replacements, was called a “complex calendar dial” because it had and the glasses are correct for this clock but may be replacements. two moving discs behind the main calendar dial. The We rarely see these rare clocks anymore. Collectors are hoarding two moving dials had to be adjusted monthly with a them I would assume. An identical clock and movement are pic- key. I believe this is a very rare model with a Maran- tured and discussed in Ly-American Clocks, Volume 3, page 214, and ville calendar for I cannot find another short drop given a value of $4000. We will be more conservative, $2000-$3000. case having been sold anywhere. The ones I have seen sold are the large cases and the short drop cases with a sloping 3. $1100 flat bottom. Note the small glass in the hinged door is the same French Empire style 4 column portico clock, ca glass Gilbert used in some other models. The dial is very nice, signed 1850. The 24.5 inch high crotch mahogany case is by Maranville and has the proper hands. Although a little dark the 22 near perfect except for chips on the top back cor- inch mahogany veneered case is near perfect. It has an eight day ners. I could have had them repaired but you can- time and strike movement that is performing properly. Inside is a not see them from the front. Unless you require coil gong attached to a brass base, and a proper pendulum bob. Ly- your 165 year old rare clocks to be perfect you will Calendar, page 80, pictures this exact case and movement. $600- like this one. This is without a doubt the largest and $750. finest clock of this type I have ever sold. Over the case are fire gilt ornaments, all present and in very 7. $3200 fine condition. The movement has no marks except Waltham Clock Company, Waltham, Mass. pendulum old repair notes. The dial is signed, “Morel A Paris”. clock, “No.16”, ca 1905. The company was formed in The porcelain dial ring is surrounded by bronze on 1897 and made high grade tall clocks, banjo clocks, and either side. The French round movement is typical, 8 day and strik- a few wall regulator clocks. It is hard to distinguish be- ing hours and half hours on a nickel bell. The movement is enclosed tween models 13 thru 17. The pendulums may be differ- in a tin can with a fitted lid on the back. $1500- ent or the height may vary slightly but they all have the $2000. same incised designs on top of the door and the tops and bases are the same. This mahogany case is about 5 4. $600 feet 8 inches, or 68 inches. It is heavy, solidly mad, and French Empire style, 4 column portico, ca 1880. This has an 8 day weight movement the company made, and beautiful clock is only 15 inches high, or about half was known for. There is a pulley holding the weight and as high as #3 above. I said #3 may be the finest por- another pulley in the top of the case. The excellent tico I have ever sold, but #4 tops it. This one is im- painted dial is signed and the hands are original. The maculate and near perfect in every way. It has a pendulum has incised designs suggestive of the Seth Thomas pen- 2 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures dulums. The wood stick and beat scale are correct. The heavy door has a key lock with the original key. These large Waltham weight 11. $2800 regulators are very rarely seen at auction, and when they do sell “Tiffany & Co. New York”, signed on the dial of th they may go from $5000 to $8000. Ly-American Clocks, Volume 1, this exceptional 19 century marble and page 244. $3500-$4000. bronze 15 day clock from the Egyptian Revival period, ca 1880. The clock came from the es- 8. $810 tate of the late Prussian/German General, New Haven Clock Co. “Office No.2”, ca 1886. It is a Moritz Ferdinand Freiherr von Bissing. Born weight driven wall regulator with dead beat and main- into a wealthy family he enjoyed the good life taining power in an 8 day time only movement. The of wealth, military and political titles while Office No.1 models drop down in the center whereas adding to the family’s wealth. The clock has no the Office No.2 weighs drop on the left side. There are doubt been in several fine collections since his death in 1917. The last double pulleys on top of the case. Notice the winding sale of this clock was for $6750. The marble and bronze clock arbor is on the right side. The cord goes thru the top weighs 94 pounds. The base weighs 73 pounds and the statue of of the case on the right side then crosses over to the Shakespeare alone weighs 21 pounds.
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