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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. That is more than most tall left side and down thru the side of the case. The clocks. The clock is 23 inches high and 22 inches wide. The statue is movement in this model is mounted to an iron back- signed “T. Hebert”, a famous French sculptor. The case is decorated plate. The 41 inch high black walnut case is very dark with rows of female figures each side of the dial. The statue and and retains the original finish. There are a couple of veneer chips on clock top are pegged for fitting, so that guarantees the statue and the left side. The case is showing its age mainly because nothing has base came together. The sash holds a beveled glass, it has correct been done to improve the finish. The original dial is signed and in French hands and pendulum, good beveled glass on the back, and a nice condition. The hands, door latches, pulleys, wood pendulum typical round 15 day French movement with nickel bell attached. The stick, and brass bob may all be original to the clock. The pendulum movement is running properly. $3000-$5000. bob and brass bezel are stained and have not been polished. Ly- New Haven #558. $900-$1200. 12. $1700 Ansonia Clock Co., New York, “Santa Fe” wall regula- 9. $1000 tor, ca 1904. An uncommon wall clock that we have not “L. F. & W. W. Carter Calendar”, in a B. B. Lewis Calendar No.2 case, auctioned in over 10 years except for a Ford Museum ca 1862. Brothers Luther and William made calendar reproduction. The 52 inch high oak case is heavy and clocks in Bristol, Conn. using the B.B.Lewis patent well constructed. This case retains its old finish, now a calendar mechanisms. The beautiful rosewood case little darker, but with some polish that gives it life. The is 32 inches, has two wood bezels with old or original double weight time only movement is running. Brass glasses. The 12 inch time dial and 8 inch calendar dial accessories include the pendulum bob, two weights, are both professionally repainted. The B. B. Lewis signed beat scale, original door latch, and dial ring. All perpetual calendar mechanism is behind the lower of the carvings, finials, knobs, etchings, and turnings, dial and covered with a metal plate and a very nice are all original to the case. Ly-Ansonia, pages 174-175. green label bearing the makers name and address, $1800-$2400. and identifying him as “The Inventor”. The inside paper label on the backboard has slight wear but is 13. $800 complete, identifying the maker and other pertinent Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. “Regulator No.14”, ca 1901. This is a large information. The two iron weights, pendulum, hands, both move- clock, 50” tall, made of oak and is really a well constructed clock ments, and all case hardware, appear to be original to the clock. with good cabinet work, applied ornaments, ripple moldings, some There is a lock on the bottom bezel, but no key. The rosewood is OG type moldings, some fine jig saw work, and attractively polished and ready for your enjoyment or resale. Both pressed or carved objects top to bottom. The wood movements are functioning properly. This is one of the nicer Carter has been routinely cleaned and polished, and has calendar clocks we have ever offered. Ly-Calendar, page 41 and 171. gracefully aged to a medium shade. It has not been $1000-$1500. harshly cleaned as much as just polished over the years. The original 8 day time only movement is run- 10. $800 ning, powered by one brass weight. It has dead beat Waterbury Clock Co. “Regulator No.18”, ca 1906. escapement and retaining power. The old dial pan This wall regulator is 49 inches tall and has a dark we believe to be original but was professionally re- finish on the cleaned oak case. The iron wafer painted. The hands, brass bob, wood stick, and beat weights are retaining the original grain painting. scale, all appear to be original to this clock. The back- This model No.18 is a later version of the early board inside was factory painted black which shows No.18, Ca 1893. The two cases are not even similar. off the bob and weight. Ly-Gilbert #359. Not too long The 8 day, 2 weight, time only movement is a trape- ago this model could have sold over $3000. That was then, this is zoid style, mounted on iron brackets. It has dead now. $900-$1200. beat escapement, retaining power, and solid pol- ished movement frames. The original dial is very 14. $1700 good with only minor flaking around the dial mount- “Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. Winsted, Conn.”, hanging “Regulator No. ing screws. A porcelain beat scale is in the base. The 11”, ca 1891. This clock is close to being perfect. There are no cracks brass pendulum bob and wood stick are the types that are used in or corners where smoke and grime is hiding. The 50” high oak case this model case. The door has a side latch and an original glass with almost looks new. That may disqualify some collectors but thankful- the original wood strips. Ly-Waterbury, #557. $800-$1200. ly a great many of us like our clocks clean and shining for that is the

3 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures only way they make it into the house, otherwise, The finish on this case is near perfect and considering it is over 100 they go to the garage or basement. This is one of years old the finish is outstanding. It has an 8 day signed movement those odd and unusual clocks we get from time to that is running and striking half hours on a standing gong. The imita- time. There are two weights that hand down either tion mercury pendulum made of cast metal and glass jars is elabo- side of the case but both are wound from only one rate, not plain. The two piece porcelain dial is signed two places, has winding arbor. The weight cords run from they one open escapement and correct hands. This is a very nice example of arbor to the top corners of the case and then down their crystal regulator clocks. Ly-Ansonia #355. $500-750. each side. We have sold a few of these unusual clocks in the past. It has an 8 day, time only, weight 18. $171 movement, descending behind the pendulum. The “Atkins Clock Comp’y / Bristol, CT”, their common “London” model pendulum bob, weight, and dial rings, are polished. shelf clock, ca 1863. The rosewood veneered case is about 17 inches Glass front and sides with original putty around all. high, has two doors and gold leaf half columns. The putty could not have been black then cleaned. The small bottom door is covered with veneer The dial is signed the same as the first line in quotes while the large door normally had two gold foil above, and it is clean. Correct hands and all case hardware. There is glasses. This clock has two glasses but the lower no label and I do not think there ever was. Ly-Gilbert #353. $2000- glass appears to be a replacement. There is minor $2500. wear to the gold leaf columns and the veneer over the case is very nice, and near perfect. The dial is a 11. $800 replacement and the hands are the proper type. French figural clock with Dore finish and an 8 day The paper label inside is complete. It has an 8 day silk thread movement, ca 1855. The 8 day round brass movement that is reported to be the last French movement is signed “Vincenti & Cie / design of movements used in the London model clocks. Atkins was Medaille D’Argent”. That means Vincenti was the continually experimenting with movement, cases, weights, and maker and Medaille was a metal awarded the mak- most everything else. The London clocks were the most successful er, probably by the French clockmakers guild. The clock manufactured by the Atkins Clock Company but for some un- door ring on the back is signed, “Duverdrey & known reason toward the end of the company’s existence they Bloquel / France”, another French clockmaker that were not making any. The pendulum bob and coil gong are correct probably provided some parts to Vincenti. The bright gold dore case and may be original to this case. It is running and striking on the is 18 inches high and 16 inches wide, complete, shows no repairs or gong. Reference – “The Clocks of Irenus Atkins”, by Gregory & King, other problems. The movement with nickel bell attached is the typi- pages 82-84. $250-$350. cal French style movement only this early model has an original silk thread pendulum and is running and striking properly. The one 19. $400 piece porcelain dial has a tiny flake at 9 o’clock that you can only see Ansonia Clock Co. Royal Bonn case named, “LaVendee”, ca 1904. on close examination. The French hands are exceptional. $1000- This model fast became one of the most popular of the 100 or more $1500. porcelain models Ansonia sold. This case is pri- marily green shades with tints of gold, red roses, 16. $400 and some yellow highlights. This case is one of Seth Thomas porcelain mantel clock, “Beta”, ca their larger, standing 14.5 inches high and 13 1896. I have collected ST clocks since 1972 and have inches wide. It has been cleaned making the bought and sold hundreds of every make and model colors brighter and more appealing to modern I could find, but I do believe this is the first ST porce- collectors and decorators. The two piece porce- lain clock I have ever owned, or seen for that mat- lain dial is signed on both pieces; there is an ter. They never got into porcelain clocks in a big way open escape mechanism and correct pair of and only four models are pictured in Ly-Seth Thom- hands. The brass sash is holding a perfect bev- as, page 667. The Beta model is the largest of the eled glass. On the back is the red Royal Bonn factory insignia and four, standing 16 inches high, and reminiscent of the model name, LaVendee”. As you know these porcelain case some of Ansonia’s better Royal Bonn cases. ST de- were kiln fired in the Royal Bonn factory, specifically for the Ansonia scribed it as, “Imported porcelain case, decorated in Clock Company. There is a brass cover over the movement opening color, with gilt tracing”. It has an excellent porcelain on the back. The movement is signed, running, and striking a gong dial, original hands and a beveled glass in a brass sash. The hinged on the half hours. Ly-Ansonia, page 638. $500-$750. back cover is brass, pendulum is correct, and the 8 day time and half hour striking movement is clean, signed, and running. It strikes on a 20. $310 Cathedral bell. The clock appears to be perfect, extremely clean, French Empire, 4 column clock, ca 1890. The beau- and one I would like to keep. $500-$750. tiful wood case is 19 inches tall with inlay on the top, base, and floor between the four columns. All 17. $410 around the case and on the columns is string inlay. Ansonia Clock Co. New York, crystal regulator, The round tapered columns have bronze capitals “Peer”, ca 1914. One of a great many styles Anso- and bases. Highlighting the clock are the case nia made, all starting with the basic movement bronze dial surround and an outstanding bronze box consisting of four beveled plate glasses, pendulum. The dial has swirled or zig-zag tiny de- doors front and back, and cast metal ornaments signs all over and is signed but I cannot read it. I in various shapes and sizes for the many styles. believe the tarnished dial is silver and may bright- This case is 12 inches high and 8 inches wide. It is en nicely if polished, but I don’t dare try it. The finished in “Rich Gold”, Ansonia’s terminology. next owner can make that decision. The hands and all other parts of

4 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures the clock are original. The 8 day movement is a typical round owner (s) kept it clean and polished. The metal parts French, bell striking movement that is running and striking properly. including the movement are all clean and polished as It is not signed on the back plate. You may have noticed that more well. This model is pretty uncommon compared to and more of the Empire/portico clocks are coming on the market, the No. 11 & No.12 models. The 8 day movement is possibly because we have many more female/decorator buyers than time only, weight driven, dead beat escapement and we did 5-10 years ago. $400-$750. it has retaining power, and is running. The most im- pressive thing to me is that all the accessories are 21. $1100 nickeled, including the dial rings, beat scale, pendu- Howard & Davis, Boston, “No. 1 Banjo”, ca 1850. lum, weight, pulley, and all are polished. The original This clock was made during the time they were dial is about as nice as you will find on a clock this transitioning over to E. Howard Co. The cases were old. The dial is signed. I have had it hanging in my the same but the glasses and movements were home for some time but need to make room for slightly different. This 50 inch high case was made incoming clocks or I would keep it. Ly-Gilbert #359. with hard wood and stained rosewood then var- $1500-$2000. nished and polished. It is in nice condition with only minor nicks on the bottom and a slight break on the 21. $300 left side of the movement round box. I thought at Seth Thomas ships bell clock and barometer, ca 1940. Possibly one first that the word “Regulator” had been added to of the sets named “Regatta Combination” by ST except in the cata- the bottom glass but the original Howard & Davis logs they did not mention that some were silver like this one. ST catalogs show the glasses in the No. 1 banjos identi- says, “Fitted with 7-jeweled, fine lever movement that strikes the cal to this one. The word “Regulator” is not found ship’s bells. Clock has polished cast brass (silver) case with hinged on other banjo glasses. The old original painted dial type wheel bezel. 4-inch silvered metal dial etched in black. Both has always been with this case, has all the same screw holes, etc. units are mounted on a single base of hand rubbed solid mahogany and is signed, “E. Howard & Co. Boston”. I found other Howard & with base moldings in bright polished brass (silver)”. It is 9 inches Davis No. 1 banjos with identical dials. The large 8 day trapezoidal high and 19 inches wide. The clock is movement with maintaining power is also original to the case and I signed by ST and the barometer is found examples of No. 1’s with the trapezoid and rectangular move- signed, “Made By Taylor Instrument ments. There is a gold painted wood stick, brass pendulum bob Cos. Rochester, NY”. It is in impeccable retaining its intricate pattern, pendulum tie down is original, and condition. Ly-Seth Thomas #2625. $400 baffle boards are original. Note the old weight is marked “1”. I could -$600. handle the case pretty well by myself with the weight and pendu- lum removed, but not with both inside the case. On each side of the 26. $310 movement are original wood block dial supports. My research F. Kroeber, New York, wood cased mantel clock, turned up no other Howard, or Howard & Davis banjo clocks with the mirrorside model, “Artic”, ca 1888. This is those type supports. The clock is 160 years old, not perfect, but perhaps the nicest, most original mirrorside we certainly surpassed my expectations after I took it all apart to check have ever sold. It has all the original finials, pendu- it out. Ly-American Clocks, Volume 2, #473. $6000-$9000. lum, glasses/mirrors, dial, hands, gong, beat scale, door latch, and all other parts. The special pendu- 22. $300 lum has an accurate adjusting scale showing the Bradley & Hubbard, “John Bull”, cast iron clock, ca 1865. They made number of minutes or fractions of a minute to be these small iron clocks in a half dozen or more styles and used regulated. The only problem with the clock is the movements from Waterbury, N. Pomeroy, S.E.Root, and others. broken original door glass. It is a horizontal break Some were signed, some were not. This is the first one I have seen across the lower part of the dial. The 8 day move- that did not wind on the front, but I have seen ment is running and striking on a Cathedral gong. The walnut case is pictures of others that wound from the back. They 25 inches high and retains the original finish, slightly marbleized in are called blinker or winker clocks for the eyes some crevices, but polished nicely. It was appraised recently for move and the movement ticks. The iron case is 17 $850. Ly-Kroeber, page 274, pictures the clock, movement, gong, inches tall, complete and original including most and beat scale. $500-$750. all of the paint. We removed the dial and the back, to inspect the movement. The balance wheel one 27. $110 day movement is running. It is not signed and I Seth Thomas “Chime Special 106”, ca 1930. have no clue as to who made it. During shipment Mahogany case stands 10 inches high and is to me the back of his pants and leggings, held to 20 inches wide. It retains the original finish, the leg with screws, came loose and broke away now darkened, but in very good condition. from one leg. When screwed back in place it fits Bowed and beveled glass in the hinged tight and the break is not visible. Also the eyes came loose from the sash. Five inch silvered dial with raised movement. I may get them fixed before the auction, if not the next bronze numerals and original hands. It is fitted with an 8 day quarter owner can have it done. We have seen these sell as high as $2000 hour Westminster chime movement that strikes on rods. Dial and but in recent years more like $1000, even if they are repainted or movement are signed. Clock is running. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 174. have replaced dials, hands, etc. $500-$750. $150-$300.

23. $1310 28. $300 Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. Winsted, Conn, “Regulator No.14”, ca 1901. Seth Thomas hanging clock, “Office No. 5”, ca 1896. Old oak case This one may be one of the nicest we have ever sold. The previous is23 inches high and 19 inches wide, overall in excellent. The case

5 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures has been refinished. A dark finish was applied very clean and polished and like most of the clocks on the oak so now the case looks almost new. in the front part of this auction, came from a long The 12 inch dial has original paint with some time collector whose clocks are in near perfect con- chips and wear, and is signed and has original dition and all are running. All its parts are original, hands. The eight day time only movement is polished, but are 135 years old so some wear is inevi- running. Ly-Seth Thomas #1071. $300-$500. table, such as the dial that has faded some and has a few tiny paint chips. Most ST dials have been re- 29. $1000 painted by the time they are this old. The brass “E. Howard & Company, Boston”, Model No.70, ca weight, pendulum bob, beat scale and dial ring are 1910. This model was used extensively in the north- all clean and polished. The 8 day time only move- east in the public schools, railroad stations, and ment likewise is clean, signed, and has been ser- many public buildings. This clock is in fine original viced. It should provide many years of uninterrupted condition. The case is oak an features good graining service. Ly-Seth Thomas, pages 274-278. $1000-$1250. and exhibits a light honey color. The 12 inch dial is painted on tin and is original to this case. The mak- 33. $410 ers name is signed on the dial and the movement. It F. Kroeber, New York, mantel clock, “Floretta”, ca 1880. The very has a time only eight day movement, weight driven. attractively designed walnut mantel clock is 20 inches tall, complete, The weight, pendulum ball, wood stick, and reverse and original. This clock was also named painted tablet are also original to this case. This is perhaps the “Powhatan” by Kroeber in 1878, but changed it to cleanest No.70 we have had the opportunity to sell. Ly-American “Floretta” in 1880. The case is clean and polished, Clocks, Volume 1, page 123. $1000-$1500. The nickel dial rings and nickel and brass pendulum bob are also polished and in good condition. A 30. $1200 label remains on the back but I cannot read it. In- “E. Howard & Co. Boston”, No.5 banjo, ca 1875. The cherry case is side is an 8 day brass movement that is running two feet five inches long and retains its original grain painted deco- and striking a gong each hour. Ly-Kroeber #965. In ration simulating the rich look of rosewood. It has two reverse that book Mr. Ly’s panel of expert collectors val- painted glasses of black, gold and maroon, the typical colors of ued this clock at $650. $500-$750. Howard banjo clocks. The brass movement is signed on the front plate, “E. Howard & Company / Bos- 34. $371 ton”. The plates are damascened. The iron dial is Reproduction Acorn clock. A copy of J. C. Brown’s painted and measures seven inches in diameter, and acorn clocks, ca 1847. The walnut case is 21 inches signed in script by the maker. The signature is worn high, has a nice painted tablet, painted metal dial and faint at this time. The original iron weight is signed by the maker, and an 8 day time and strik- stamped, “5”. The brass pendulum features a ring ing movement. It strikes on a coil gong. Pendulum turned design that is also damascened and support- and key inside the case. Dial signed, J. R. Freeman. ed by the original wood rod. Other original parts are Research indicates he was a clockmaker in Morris- the hands, brass pendulum tie down, and the typical town, NJ. $400-$600. Howard door locks on both doors. Ly-American Clocks, Volume 1, page 117. $1500-$2000. 31. $1000 E. Howard Clock Co. Boston, Mass., “No. 10 Regula- 31. $1100 tor”, Reissue, ca 1979. The clock is in like new excellent Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No.3”, ca condition. It bears serial number #487 stamped on the 1879. The 32” high walnut case has the original fin- 8 day movement, the back of the dial, the weight, and ish, not as dark or black as many we have seen, but the back of the case. It comes with the original Manu- there is some faint accumulation of smoke in the facturer’s Certificate. The walnut case is 34.5 inches crevices. A light polishing occasionally has kept a high, has the side door latch, painted metal dial and lot of pollutants from accumulating. We have the two painted glasses. The 8 day movement is weight original Texas star pendulum, and a winding key. driven and in fine running condition. Ly-American Everything about the clock appears to be original Clocks, Volume 1, page118. $1000-$1500. with the exception of the top dial and perhaps the three finials. They have excellent points and the 36. $1800 factory marks on the stubs, however anyone can Seth Thomas Clock Co. “Regulator No. 1”, ca 1879. This clock is the put those marks there. Correct door lock on the earliest wall weight regulator ST made. Some were made with fini- side, good “Fashion” glass, four correct hands, large/polished brass als, some no finials but had a painted tablet. A few bell, polished nickeled dial rings, and at least one original painted were made with a round bottom and some with dial. The two movements are original and functioning properly. The large octagon top and painted tablets. It is like they case is clean and polished. Possibly the only flaw would be the up- were experimenting trying to find their market per dial. Collectors seem to be evenly divided on this type problem. niche. This walnut veneered case is 34” high, all origi- Many will have both dials repainted, many collectors would not nal, darker than I would like it to be, apparently has dream of intruding on the originality of the clock. Ly-Calendar, pag- not been cleaned, but has been heavily polished over es 284-286; Ly-Seth Thomas, page 118. $1750-$2000. the age darkened finish. Original finials, door lock, and original glass in the bezel. The bottom glass is 32. $1000 also original. Inside is a beat scale, nice brass pendu- Seth Thomas “Regulator No.2”, ca 1880. Oak case is 34 inches long, lum bob, good old wood stick, original painted dial is

6 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures signed and was repainted years ago, and it has the three old hands. 40. $400 The 8 day, time only, one weight movement is trapezoid shaped, French all brass mantel clock, ca 1890. It has the solid plate, and in good operating condition. Ly-Seth Thomas, pages typical round 8 day time and striking French 269-273. In very nice condition this model generally will book and movement striking half hours on a standing sell upwards of $3500. $2000-$2500. Cathedral gong. On the front are wonderful full round columns with elaborate capitals, bases, 37. $600 and fluted posts. All around the base it has E. N. Welch Mfg. Co., Forestville, Conn, “Admiral pressed designs and on top a large cast brass Dewey”, ca 1900. This clock is one of the “Spanish emblem. The case is 14.5 inches high, complete American War” commemorative series. We seldom and all original. There is no damage and the see the clocks in this series for collectors have brass is clean and very bright. Underneath are four turned brass them all and rarely put them up for sale. The feet. The sash is holding a beveled glass, over the brass dial with pressed oak case is 24 inches tall and in good origi- recessed numbers and original hands. On the back is a brass cover nal condition including the special glass, dial, pen- over the movement opening. Inside is a pendulum and winding key. dulum, and all other parts. The signed paper dial is The movement is signed, “Medaille D’Argent” and “A1”. $500-$750. original and complete but has darkened slightly. The hands, pendulum bob, and wire gong, are original. Ly-Welch, 41. $800 page 384. We have seen the clocks in this series sell all over the New Haven Clock Co. “Eight-Bell Chime No.1”, ca 1895. Oak case spectrum. Generally it depends if the collector needs it to start or with French Satin Gilt Trimmings (per the books) they look to be complete a collection. $600-$750. brass trimmings to me. Silver dial ring and silver dial plate with ornaments to match the trimmings on 38. $800 the case. There are regulators for “Chime-Silent” Seth Thomas, Thomaston, Conn. “Parlor Calendar No.1”, ca 1865. and “Fast-Slow” on the dial front, three winding The clock has a complete black and gold label on the inside of the arbors, and a fine pair of original hands. Large bev- door. This clock came from a New York collector, eled glass in the door, sides are cut out with cloth the part of the USA where most of the early clocks backing. Metal feet underneath. The top of the are today. They are ever so slowly becoming avail- case is missing. It would have been 18” high with able to other collectors. The rosewood veneered the top, now only 14.5” high. Back door is cut out with wire mesh case is 33 inches high, retaining the original finish, and has a hook latch. Standing gong, correct pendulum, and the now darker as it has aged. The veneer is near per- nest of 8 bells over the solid plate nickel movement. Everything is fect. I would call it perfect but you will find a nick properly signed and operating properly. Ly-New Haven #343. $800- probably. It has the correct pair of iron weights, an $1000. old pendulum bob, a male key to operate the side door lock, and a winding key for the running move- 42. $100 ment. The two dials are correctly painted replace- “Chauncey Jerome, New Haven, Conn.”, steeple or ments as are the hands. The signed 8 day lyre sharp gothic mantel clock, ca 1847. The 20 inch mahog- movement has good weight cords, is running and any veneered case is very nice, has sharp pointed fini- striking hours on the coil gong. Other than the dials this is a very als, good veneer all over, and a latching door. The label original clock and worthy of someone’s collection. Ly-Seth Thomas, is excellent, has the original wire gong, old pendulum page 104; Ly-Calendar, page 258. $1000-$1500. bob, and a spring driven 8 day fusee movement. The old dial has been repainted, both glasses are original, 39. $1000 and the clock basically is like it came from the factory. “Patented Clocks / Invented By / Eli Terry / Made and Sold at / Plym- $500-$750. outh, Connecticut / by Seth Thomas” copied from the label of this pillar and scroll clock ca 1827. Mahogany ve- 43. $100 neered case is 31” high, has excellent veneer all Ansonia Clock Co. New York, NY, Royal Bonn cased clock, “La over, has old glasses, bottom repainted or Nord”, ca 1904. As Ansonia porcelain clocks go this is one of the touched up. The clock has been restored, by that large ones, 14.5 inches wide and 12 inches high. On the back are the I mean cleaned with polish to give it a beautiful Royal Bonn Company’s insignia and the clock ready to put on the mantel finish. The door has a name, painted on the case before it was kiln wood escutcheon, door lock with key, and the fired in the German factory. As will all their brass finials are three piece. The case has been porcelain clocks there is an assortment of cleaned/polished and rubbed to a nice furniture colors including a sprinkling of gold accents finish. The scroll top, chimneys, returns, weight and flowers which you see on most of their cords, weight rollers, and all other parts are origi- clocks. There is a signed two piece porcelain nal. Same with the base, all original. Label inside dial, open escapement mechanism and the has some paper loss in the weight chutes, pair of correct hands. Over the dial are the brass sash and beveled glass. old iron weights, and an old brass bob, door key, and winding crank. On the back is a brass cover over the movement opening. Inside the Excellent wood dial has no fading or stretch marks, and it has what case is a signed 8 day movement, Cathedral gong, and correct pen- appears to be original hands. The clock has been owned in the past dulum bob. The movement is running and striking half hours and by one or more nationally known collectors. As with all clocks, we hours. Ly-Ansonia #2585. $500-$750. are only custodians of these rare treasurers for a short time. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 658. $1250-$1750. 44. $100 New Haven Clock Co., New Haven, Conn. chime clock. Label says,

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“Patented in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, and in the large brass bell. There is a good white label on the directions it says, “Directions for Setting up Stewart Chime the inside of the door. Everything looks to be origi- Clock”. The chime movement is signed, “Wilcock, Canada, Patented nal except the dials were professionally repainted. 1896”. The 8 day solid plate running movement The finials have complete tips but as with all Fash- was made by New Haven and is double wind. The ion finials may be replacements. This model usually strike hammer on the running movement hits a has bad veneer with chips on the bezels, the base lever that activates the chime movement. It plays and the top. Other than a few tiny chips and edge Westminster chimes on a set of four coil wire scuff marks this one is about as nice as I have seen. gongs. The hour strike is sounded on a fifth gong. Some of the veneer looks more like rosewood than The mahogany case is 16.5 inches high and 12 inch- walnut. If you are trying to collect nice examples of es wide, fitted with a beveled glass over the signed all the Fashions you won’t go wrong with this one. dial. The dial is signed by the New Haven Clock Co. Ly-Calendar, page 283. $750-$1000. The chime movement is wound on the side of the case next to the chime/silent lever. The movement is mounted on a cast iron frame, figure 8 in shape, the chime mechanism is mounted 48. $1000 on the lower half of the iron bracket. The case has carved orna- Waterbury Clock Co. “Regulator No. 19”, ca 1896. The ments, carved capitals over the fluted columns, ripple beading cleaned and polished oak case is 50” tall. The old glass around the top. It is complete, original and in excellent condition is held with the original wood strips. All wood parts and has a complete label on the back. It is running and functioning are original, including some applied trim, and some properly. This identical clock is the subject of a lengthy article in the small carved pieces, and grooved designs. The case is August 1988 NAWCC Bulletin. smoky dark inside as was no doubt the same outside before it was cleaned. Signed porcelain beat scale, 41. $600 brass pendulum bob, wood stick, practically a com- French marble/onyx clock with chariot rider and three horses, ca plete paper label inside although worn, two round 1885. A very unusual clock. The case is 21 inches high and mostly weights that descend the sides, excellent original white onyx with brown veins which is common with onyx/marble. I painted dial, and original hands. The seconds hand is only see one small corner chip. As heavy as the clock correct, and they pulleys and hooks are correct. Two door latches is I am surprised it is even holding together. It is all I and a winding key complete the accessories. Ly-Waterbury #626. can do to move it. It has brass ornaments from the This clock is not pictured in any of the Waterbury Clock Co. catalogs. horses on top to a large sheet underneath. The two Mr. Ly obtained a photo from the Roy Ehrhardt books which I as- columns are full round. The sash is holding a beveled sume was a picture of an original No.19. The label in this case says, and bowed glass. Marble dial appears to have a big “Regulator No.19”. $1000-$1500. problem area at the 9, but is actually shading and veins in the onyx. It has applied brass numerals and 49. $1100 very nice hands. The dial is signed, but very faint, and Ansonia Clock Company, hanging clock, “Capitol”, ca I cannot make it out. On the back is a brass door over 1894. This clock is double spring, time and strike, and the movement opening. It has a typical French move- has no seconds dial. This 54” high case is made with ment, round, 8 day, striking half hours on a standing gong. It would black walnut, it is clean and polished, and all finials be an eye catching clock if cleaned and brass brightened. $750- appear to be original. There are three glasses, a Lady $1000. Minerva bust on the top, and a side door latch. Inside is a metal beat scale, a brass bob, wood stick, bell for 46. $600 the strike, brass dial rings, good hands, and the 8 day “Eli Terry, Jr., Terrysville, Connecticut”, pillar and signed movement, all seemingly original to the case. scroll clock. The clock case is a reproduction with a The double wind movement is running, keeping excel- new label, brass finials, weights, and glasses. The lent time and striking the bell on cue each hour. The wood movement, wood dial, pair of hands, brass old dial pan has been repainted at some time on the pendulum, and winding crank, are the period parts original zinc dial pans. The case is a black walnut with that would go with a ca 1825 pillar and scroll clock. a good looking finish. Ly-Ansonia #597. $1250-$1500. The walnut case is 31.5 inches tall, has a brass door knob, nice reverse painted tablet, three solid brass 10. $900 finials, and overall is a nice looking copy of an early Ithaca Calendar Clock Co., Ithaca, NY, “No. 4 Hang- clock. The clock was invented by his father, Eli Terry, ing Office”, 30 day double wind, double dial calen- and various people including his sons, Seth Thomas, and others, dar clock, ca 1880. The 29 inch walnut case is clean, were licensed to sell his clocks. $600-$900. polished, and retains the original finish. There is no damage or replaced parts. The one piece front is 47. $600 held by a hook on the case side. Note that most of Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No.2”, ca 1876. The 31 inch the paper label is intact on the back of the door and high case is made with walnut veneer and was the first Fashion with there is part of a label of instructions inside the finials and side columns. The No. 1 had paper dials but beginning case. Both dials have been painted and of course are with the No.2 they were painted on zinc. Since these dials are paper in excellent condition. Good calendar rollers, three we must assume they are replacements. The label on the back of original hands, winding key, and brass pendulum the door says the clock was put into operation on September 1, bob. The movements are running and the calendar is functioning 1877. The 8 day brass movement is signed by Seth Thomas as being properly. Ly-Calendar, page 136. $900-$1200. made for Southern Calendar, etc. It is running and striking hours on

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11. $1000 nal. This clock is near perfect. If I needed a banjo clock this would be E. Howard & Co. Boston, “Regulator No. 70, ca 1880. the one I would buy. This exact clock is pictured in Ly-American Here is a nice original Howard clock packaged in a Clocks, Volume 1, page 247. $1250-$1750. 32” walnut case with a beautiful mellow and aged finish. It is clean, polished and all original. The worst 11. $1300 things I can say about the clock is the original finish Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. “Regulator No. 10, Hang- is a little dark. It has been polished and any nicks or ing”, ca 1910. We seldom see this model, and have scrapes are impossible to see. All the parts appear only seen a couple sell in 40 years. There was one to be original including the painted dial, hands, sold in an east coast auction 15 years ago for over latches, brass damascened bob, pendulum stick, $5000, not nearly as nice as this near perfect clock. pendulum tie down, baffle board, and the correct We have sold many Regulator No.11 models, none as iron weight and pulley. The dial is signed, “E. How- nice as this clock. Some may complain that the 53” ard & Co. / Boston”, and the signature paint is strong. The weight is oak case is too nice but we see no indications it has marked, “70”. Glasses are original; paint on the lower glass is very ever been cleaned or refinished. Perhaps polished or good. 8 day movement is signed and running. This clock is about as rubbed, but when you see no black in the multitude good as it gets for a 135 year old clock. Ly-American, page 123. $1250- of grooves and carvings, you have to feel that it has $1750. been protected thru its existence. It came to us with the superb collection of clocks, and the collector 12. $421 said it was the one clock in his house that everyone Wm. L. Gilbert hanging clock, “Linden”, ca 1910. tried to buy. Accessories are brass and nickel; bob, There must not have been many of this model made. weight, pulley, beat scale, and dial rings. Three good glasses, one My inventory records dating back to 1970 do not held with the original putty, other two with new putty, colored show that any has gone thru our auctions. The wal- over. Good wood stick, burl insert in the back board, new signed nut case is 37 inches tall, complete and original. It has dial, three correct hands, and the original 8 day time only move- been cleaned and polished inside and out. You will ment. If I were a Gilbert collector, this clock would not leave the only need to hang it on the wall and wind it to get house. The No.10 that sold 15 years ago for $5000 had several imper- years of enjoyment. Note the brass pendulum bob fections. That should mean this beautiful clock is worth twice as and dial rings have been polished and a new paper much. Ly-Gilbert, page 135. $1500-$2000. dial installed. The glass is old and I suspect it was removed from the case when it was thoroughly 16. $100 cleaned of accumulated smoke, however an original Seth Thomas wall clock, “World”, ca 1891. Oak case glass might have had a factory design. It has an 8 day time only is 32” long, clean and polished revealing a beautiful- movement and is running properly. You will not have to silence this ly grained walnut wood. Brass bob, wood stick, clock when company spends the night. I get so tired of doing that. I both glasses, hands, dial, two door latches, and the could not keep the light from reflecting on the glass and inside the movement, are all original to this case and in excel- case. It is perfect so the imperfections are my fault. Ly-Gilbert #384. lent condition. The double wind time only move- $500-$750. ment runs 30 days. We are always pleasantly sur- prised when we find they run 30 days. The original 13. $300 label inside this case is extremely rare and one I Sessions Clock Co. store regulator with calendar dial have never seen. At this writing I am reaching out and Camel cigarette glass advertising. The excellent to many people and organizations in an attempt to oak case is 38.5 inches tall, cleaned, polished, and verify the label. It reads, “Seth Thomas / Clockmak- ready to enjoy. The top glass is original, the Camel er / Wolf Hollow, Connecticut”. I could speculate glass is a replacement. There are two door latches about the clock and the label but defer until I can get more conclu- on the side. The polished brass pendulum ball has sive information. Next to the Seth Thomas No.2 Regulators, we con- pressed designs all over, there is a good wood stick, sider this long drop model to be one of the company’s crowning polished brass dial rings, and three good hands. The achievements in clock making. They are extremely reliable and a paper calendar dial is a replacement. The 8 day time good size for any room in your home. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 323. only movement is running and the calendar is chang- $500-$750. ing on cue. $300-$500. 17. $900 14. $1200 Seth Thomas Clock Co. mantel clock, “Lincoln”, ca 1891. The collec- Waltham Clock Co. banjo, ca 1930. Waltham gave it a tor who owned this clock shined the brass pieces including the dial fancy name, “Colonial”. The mahogany case is 40” high, rings, gong base, pendulum bob, beat scale and the two weights. in excellent overall condition, brass eagle, side rails, and The walnut case is 27” high, has carved side ears, turned finials on bezel. The bottom glass is signed, “Wayside Inn”, and is top, door knob, door lock on the side, old door perfect with no paint loss as is the throat glass. The brass glass, but the case overall is clean and nice, not sash, eagle, side rails, and pendulum bob are all polished. perfect, but nice. You may find a splinter filled in Bowed glass over the painted dial. The dial is signed and and stained, etc. Beat scale, good paper label re- the hands are correct. The 8 day weight driven move- mains inside, good paper dial, correct hands, and ment is signed, “Waltham Clock Co.”, retaining the Gene- an 8 day two weight movement that is running. It va lock. The tie down screw is holding the pendulum as strikes on the Cathedral bell on the hours. I choose intended. The brass bob, wood pendulum stick, iron not to go into my lecture on why ST named this weight, and metal baffle in the weight chute are all origi- clock, “Lincoln”. Check some past write-up’s if you

9 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures are interested. Another thing of interest, these weights are original The hands are good and there is an old brass bob and key. It has a to this clock. I have seen numerous Lincoln and Garfield clocks with correct coil gong, and a near perfect paper label. Large springs in different size weights as well as same size weights. Ly-Seth Thomas, this 8 day time and striking movement. The movement is in good page 720. $1000-$1500. condition, strikes hourly, and is running. Ly-Ansonia, page 443. $200- $300. 18. $1400 Seth Thomas Clock Co. mantel clock, “Garfield”, ca 62. $171 1886. The 29” high wood case is finished in walnut. E. Ingraham & Co. banjo clock, “Treasure”, ca 1934. Col- Seth Thomas named two clocks for the presidents lectors call the clock “Treasure Island”. The label on the (Lincoln and Garfield) the only two presidents who back is mostly intact but does not show this model had been assassinated in office at the time these name. This is a pretty near perfect banjo. The solid ma- clocks were made. Of course since then there has hogany case is 39” high and in near perfect condition, been another. Both clocks were large compared has no wood problems and retains the original, now to other shelf clocks of that period and they were aged and darkened finish. It has a solid brass eagle, side both powered by two weights, and were geared rails, and bezel. Both glasses are original. The move- to run eight days. This clock is near perfect, the ment is 8 day and has a two rod duplex strike. Perfect only change from original is there is no label. The 8 metal dial is signed, brass pendulum bob is correct and day movement is signed, running and strikes hours on a large Cathe- so are the hands. This one is about as good as they dral gong. There is certainly nothing wrong about a clock with brass come. Ly-Ingraham #239. $350-$550. accessories, but a clock that has nickeled accessories is really spe- cial. It has an excellent damascened nickel pendulum bob, two cor- 63. $200 rect nickel weights, a nickel beat scale, nickel gong, nickel pulleys, Seth Thomas Clock Co. City Series clock, “Boston”, nickel dial rings, original hands, and an old winding key. Ly-Seth ca 1884. We have sold this model for $400-$600 if Thomas, page 726. The Garfield has always booked over $2000. they were in excellent condition. Well, this one is $1500-$2000. very nice. I did not notice one of the finials was not on top when I took the picture. It is now on the 19. $110 case. The walnut 21” high case is clean and pol- E. N. Welch Mfg Co. Forestville, Conn. U.S.A.”, mantel ished, the old zinc dial has some paint chips, and clock, “Sharp Gothic”, (beehive) ca 1885. Excellent most of the black label is inside. The nickel pendu- label inside, old brass bob, coil gong with brass base, 8 lum, nickel pendulum hanger, nickel bell, and nickel day brass movement, good old hands, and an original dial rings, are all original stock and clean and pol- metal dial a little dirty but hardly worn. The mahogany ished. The finials and other case parts are original. The 8 day move- veneered case is almost 19” tall, has good finials, door ment is running and striking the nickel bell on the hours. Ly-Seth latch, two original glasses, the bottom with minor Thomas #511. $200-$300. flaking. The veneer is good but as usual has a few chips on the base, nicely stained so you can hardly see 64. $400 them. Actually it is a very nice early clock. Ly-Welch Ansonia Clock Co. Ansonia, Conn.”, hanging gallery #403. $200-$300. clock, “Fulton”, ca 1914. The mahogany veneered case is 19 inches square, has a door latch on the 60. $1100 left, and an original glass. The veneer is very good, Southern Calendar Clock Co. Saint Louis, Mo. “Fashion No.3”, ca case is somewhat age darkened. You will find a tiny 1879. The 32” walnut case has a good polished finish, dark with age edge chip if you look closely. The large 14 inch but not crazed, and has very good gold in the incised designs. The painted dial is signed, slightly dirty, no attempt Fashion glass is showing no wear, the hands are all made to clean it. It has three correct hands and a large brass pendu- original as are the dials, and it has the correct lum bob. The movement is their 30 day time model and it is running. “Star Pendulum”, which makes it correct for the Ly-Ansonia #686. $500-$750. No.3 Fashion. The dials were repainted several years ago. Inside are a large brass bell, correct 61. $410 labels, original movements, and nickel dial rings. Ansonia Clock Company mirrorside mantel clock, Outside there is an original key and all the wood “Triumph”, ca 1880. Made of black walnut and parts are original and very nice. The finials are dark stands 24.5” high. This case has been cleaned but and appear to be as old as the case but I doubt still has a dark aged finish. It is original except for that these finials came with the clock. Overall this the statues that are replacements. The pedestals is a very nice and original Fashion No.3. Ly- under the statues are original, so are the two metal Calendar, pages 284-285. $1500-$2000. ornaments top and bottom, the four finials, carved top ornament, three original glasses, correct pen- 61. $110 dulum, and a winding key. The 8 day movement is “Ansonia Clock Co., Ansonia, Conn.” Round Gothic signed, running, and striking half hours on a Cathe- (beehive) mantel clock, ca 1874. Nice rosewood ve- dral gong. Original black paper on the inside and is still in good con- neered case is 19” high, has a few chips on the base- dition. There is a partial label on the back. If you like clocks that has board, but were stained and you can hardly see them. its original finish, this one is for you. Ly-Ansonia #1772. $500-$750. A good original tablet with some tiny paint flecks. Knob and latching door and original putty around the 66. $471 top glass. The old painted dial shows wear but is clean. “THE BELLE / Manufactured By The / E. N. Welch Mfg Co. /

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Forestville, Conn. U.S.A.”, copied from one of two page 283. $800-$1200. complete labels on this hanging clock, ca 1900. This model is not pictured in Ly-Welch but as you 70. $200 can tell from the labels it is certainly authentic. It “F. Kroeber, New York”, walnut mantel clock, closely resembles a clock made by Seth Thomas, “Rambler”, ca 1888. Excellent original clock, stands the Eclipse or Balltop. I suspect the ST balltop was 20.5 inches tall, clean, polished, complete label on so successful Welch produced a similar clock. The the back, original glass, dial, pendulum, signed oak case is 26 inches high, has been cleaned of an gong base, signed beat scale, and signed 8 day time accumulation of smoke, and has all its original and striking movement. It is running and striking parts with the exception of a replaced paper dial. the gong each hour. The only thing keeping the The inside of the case is jam packed with a large clock from being near perfect is the slightly soiled gong, alarm movement and brass bell, and of course the 8 day time original dial. Ly-Kroeber #1123. $250-$400. and striking movement. Everything is clean, polished, and fully oper- ational. This is a rare clock, one I have never sold before. $500-$750. 71. $300 Seth Thomas Clock Co. a City Series clock, “Ogden”, ca 1881. The 67. $300 factory date is stamped on the case back. This is another of Seth “F. Kroeber, New York”, 8 day mantel clock, Thomas fine parlor clocks, great style and quality, carved ornaments “Niagara”, ca 1875. Fruitwood case is 20 inches on the sides and top, dentil molding above the high and has been immaculately cleaned and pol- door, and other exceptional trim around the wal- ished, and looks like it just came from the factory. nut case. It is 21 ½” high, complete and all origi- The door is latched shut from the left side. On the nal. It has a very nice original glass in the door, back is a complete paper label. Everything is origi- key locking door, and excellent black label inside, nal except the new paper dial. The glass, fancy new paper on the dial, and correct hands. It has a glass and brass pendulum with fleur de leis leaf fine ST bob, nickeled with damascened circles all above the beveled glass, signed metal beat scale, over. Nickeled dial rings and nickel gong base. 8 brass bell, brass dial rings, and the 8 day move- day lyre movement is signed “ST” and “Seth ment that is running and striking the bell each hour. Ly-Kroeber Thomas Clock Co.”, running, and striking the #1063 where it is valued at $650. $300-$500. large Cathedral gong on the hours. Every time I list a group of very nice City Series clocks in the 68. $300 catalogs, I get a hankering to collect them again. Selling my collec- Seth Thomas mantel clock, miniature pillar and tion of 90 City Series clocks got me started in this clock business. scroll clock, “Kingsbury”, ca 1932. This model was That was my first big mistake. There are no finer mantel clocks made made as a self-starting synchronous electric, or 8 by any company, than many of the Seth Thomas City Series clocks. day pendulum movement which this one is. The Ly-Seth Thomas #575. $400-$600. case is red mahogany and stands 17 inches tall, clean, original, and in near perfect condition. It has 72. $400 the Mount Vernon panel, polished brass top orna- “E. N. Welch Mfg. Co. / Forestville, Conn. U.S.A.”, ments, Roman dial with black and gold decora- rosewood mantel clock, “Beehive”, ca 1878. This is tions, and hour and half hour strike. It strikes on a the nicest, nearest to perfect beehive clock I have hanging Cathedral gong. On the back is a com- ever seen. It is definitely a keeper. The rosewood plete label. Ly-Seth Thomas #2231. $300-$500. veneered case is 18 inches tall, tablet depicts a lion ready to devour a wild boar. Original painted zinc 69. $800 dial has slight wear or normal aging, Complete label Southern Calendar Clock Co. “Fashion No.2”, ca 1877. This model is inside, and alarm movement. The alarm strikes a walnut veneered, stands 31” high, and was the last Fashion model bell; the running movement strikes a coil gong. Old that was veneered. Others were made of solid walnut. It was the pendulum and hands. The movement runs 8 days. Ly-Welch, pages first model with three finials, and almost impossible to find one with 364-369. $400-$600. good original veneer. The veneer on this case is as nice as I have seen on a No.2 Fashion. The finials are correct replacements turned 73. $100 from walnut and stained to match the case how- Ansonia Clock Co. New York, NY, “La Cor- ever the tips on all three are gone. The collector sia”, ca 1901. The large Royal Bonn case is had new tips made but not installed. They will be extremely clean and is in original condition with this clock is you buy it. Also, if you prefer I with no breaks, chips, hairlines, or repairs. will include a set of new finials that we have sold The case is off white, baby blue with paint- for years for $25. You would need to stain and fit ed flowers front and sides. Of particular them to the case. The dials are now covered with interest are the large blue mythological new paper. Good paper label inside indicating the birds on the front. The case is 14 inches clock was sold in 1877. It has a correct pendulum wide and 12 inches high and is in the group of their Royal Bonn bob, and a good 8 day brass movement made by clocks we classify as very large and therefore usually command a Seth Thomas Clock Co. for Southern Calendar larger price. There is a beveled glass in the brass sash, signed two Clock Co. It is signed by ST, clean and is running piece porcelain dial, original hands, and an open escapement mech- and striking a brass bell each hour. If in excellent anism. On the back over the movement opening is a brass cover. condition this model might bring $1500, of course this one is not Inside the case of course is an 8 day signed movement, clean and excellent because of the finials and replaced dials. Ly-Calendar, running, and striking half hours on a Cathedral gong. Included are a

11 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures two prong winding key and a correct brass pendulum. Ly-Ansonia 78. $1200 #2556. $600-$800. Waltham Clock Company, Waltham, Mass. banjo clock, ca 1910-1920. This clock was one of their Colonial Se- 74. $400 ries, this they numbered, “No.41”. This series would Seth Thomas Clock Co. “Chime Clock No. 1 have a small portrait of President Washington in the Special”, ca 1915. Better known as a 4 bell throat glass and a painting of Mt.Vernon in the lower Sonora Chime clock, playing Westminster glass, or they would have President Jefferson and his chimes every fifteen minutes and the hour home, Monticello. This walnut case is 41 inches tall, struck on four patented resonated bells. The shows only slight wear, and a tiny touch up on the red adamantine case is 15” wide, 13” high, lower glass, otherwise a very clean case, polished and with rolling lines on the base and sides. It is ready to enjoy. The movement is 8 day with heavy undoubtedly the nicest, most near perfect brass plates, pendulum movement with a heavy Sonora Chime clock I have seen. There is a weight descending the length of the case. The clock is bowed and beveled glass in the brass sash. The one piece silver dial complete, original, and fully operational. Ly-Clocks, is clean and there is a slow/fast adjuster on the dial. The back wood Volume 1, page 172. $1200-$1500. cover is also near perfect. Both movements are clean and polished, everything inside is original. A correct pendulum bob and key inside 79. $150 the case. The 8 day running movement is signed, “89A”, and the Seth Thomas Clock Co. mantel clock, “Column”, ca 1870. An immac- Sonora Chime movement is signed, “90”. This clock is near perfect. ulate 16” rosewood veneered clock, clean inside and out. There are Ly-Seth Thomas, #376. $500-$750. no detectable rough spots, patched, or missing veneer.The clock was restored to like new condi- 75. $400 tion, gold enhanced around both glasses, both Ansonia Clock Co. large porcelain clock, “Ossippe”, ca 1904. This is glasses look to be original. Repainted dial, brass another very large case that is wider than most at 13”, and is 12” tall. was polished, ST hands, correct bob and key, and a The case is green with a large amount of gold and the usual painted complete paper label inside. Large 8 day lyre move- flowers all over the case. It has all the regular ment is signed, clean, running, and striking a coil accessories, signed movement, correct pendu- gong on the hours. Movement held in the case with lum, brass back door, brass bezel with a flat mounting blocks. The case is outstanding. Ly-Seth beveled glass, correct hands, signed two piece Thomas #1741 and #1742. $200-$300. dial with open escapement, etc. The 8 day movement is running and striking a gong on 80. $110 hours and half hours. This is an exceptionally Waterbury Clock Company, Waterbury, clean and near perfect clock. $500-$750. Conn.. mantel clock, “Madison”, ca 1891. The company described the clock as having, 76. $200 “polished walnut, with mottled ash ve- New Haven Clock Co. crystal regulator, “Thoreau”, neers, cabinet finish”. The case is 14 inches ca 1911. Clock case made of heavy metal and gold high and 19.5 inches wide. The wood parts plating added. The gold plating has worn off or of the case are near perfect except the been cleaned off. Now has a lot of copper showing back cover over the opening is replaced. It has some incised designs and in need of regilding. The case is 15 inches tall, on the base and top and the 6 full columns are eye catching. The has four beveled French plate glasses, all perfect. It appearance is that of a really big clock. The only shortcoming I see is has a two piece signed dial and open escapement. a replaced paper dial. On the back is a complete label. The signed 8 The 8 day movement is running and striking half day movement is running and striking half hours on a gong. They hours and hours on a Cathedral gong. The imitation used their “Star” movement in this clock, which they felt was a cut mercury pendulum is correct, and has a small chip above some other movements. Ly-Waterbury #1747. $150-$250. in one of the glass vials. Ly-New Haven #373. $200- $350. 81. $210 Seth Thomas hanging clock, “King Bee”, ca 1900. 77. $110 The oak case is clean, complete, and original, and in Seth Thomas mantel clock, one of the Fleet Se- excellent condition. It has a new paper dial on the ries, “Fleet No.3”, ca 1913. Cases in this series of old pan. The two movements, running and alarm, 3 clocks were made of old oak, standing 23 inch- have been cleaned and serviced, both in fine operat- es high, all had the same tablet showing three ing condition. The dial rings are polished and all the ships that steamed around the world in 1909 on metal ornaments are clean. The alarm should ring what they called the “Wonderful Peach Cruise on a brass bell but it is missing. The running move- of the US Fleet”. The case is pretty much, “as ment strikes a Cathedral gong. The brass bell is easy found”, it is clean, retains a dark finish, has a full to obtain. The oak case is 30 inches high. The tablet/ label on the back, and everything about the glass is original to the case, door latches on the clock is original. The dial is signed and in original side. On the back is a near complete label but is very dark. $300- but pretty rough condition. Inside is the 8 day $500. movement that is running and striking half hours on a wire bell. This clock also has an alarm that rings on a 82. $310 brass bell. Ly-Seth Thomas #2283. $200-$350. Waterbury Clock Company, Waterbury, Conn. calendar mantel clock, “Buffalo”, ca 1891. Excellent walnut case is 27 inches tall, complete,

12 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures and wood parts are all original. The glass and the paper dial are an original mahogany panel instead of a painted tablet in the bot- replacements. Nothing elaborate about the case tom of the door. The door has a key lock with key. Top glass is origi- yet it is very attractive considering the spiral nal as is the dial, hands, gong, pendulum, finials, and movement. Ly- shaped ornaments, applied finials and other wood Seth Thomas #2236. $400-$600. pieces, and the etched designs top and sides. There is a ripple like design along the top and base. The 87. $400 movement is 8 day, signed, and running. It strikes a Waterbury Clock Co. Waterbury, Conn., hanging gong on half hours and hours. Large solid brass clock, “Stafford”, ca 1883. Walnut case is 34 inches pendulum bob on a wood stick. On the back are tall and retains the original finish, darkened over most of two paper labels, one indicating sales offic- time but still makes a good appearance. It has all the es in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Glas- original parts including lower finials and applied gow (Scotland), the other more or less a label of instructions. Ly- ornaments. Inside is a very dark label and on the Waterbury #254. $400-$600. back are two perfect labels. The brass pendulum bob and wood stick are correct as is the Cathedral 83. $110 gong, original signed paper dial and hands. The door E. N. Welch Mfg. Co., Forestville, Conn, “Admiral Sampson”, ca has a knob operating a latch. The movement is run- 1900. This clock is one of the “Spanish American War” commemora- ning and striking the gong on half hours and hours. tive series. We seldom see the clocks in this series for collectors It is clean and is signed. Ly-Waterbury #619. $400- have them all and rarely put them up for sale. $600. The pressed oak case is 24 inches tall and in good original condition including the special glass. The 88. $1000 dial paper has been replaced but the pendulum F. Kroeber, New York, German made Vienna Regulator, ebonized and all other parts are original. The hands are wooden case in the Vienna style, ca 1875. The case is 47.5 inches questionable but the wire gong; the alarm move- high, original removable top, three finials on the bot- ment and brass bell are original. Ly-Welch, page tom, three glasses, and latching door. The clock has 460-461. We have seen the clocks in this series been well maintained and shows very little wear, has sell all over the gamut. Generally it depends if the no chips, or scuff marks. No doubt it has been pam- collector needs it to start or fill in their collection. pered. The movement is signed, “F. Kroeber / N. Y.”, $600-$750. plus it bears the serial number “50369”. That same serial number is also etched on the brass back plate 84. $200 and the pendulum hook. The two piece porcelain dial “The E. Ingraham Company, Bristol, Conn.”, banjo is very good and the three hands are original. The clock, “Nile”, ca 1915. This is a near perfect example of brass weight, brass dial rings, brass pendulum bob, this model. On the back is a perfect paper label. They brass back plate, and the 8 day time only weight driv- described the 39 inch wood case as having a “rubbed en movement are all polished. The brass weight shell mahogany finish”. There are two shades of the wood has dents. The movement is running. Ly-Kroeber has and it is clean and polished. The lower door and the many Vienna’s pictured and their numbers go above brass bezel latch. The brass pendulum bob is perfect, 84. Our Vienna is not pictured, but in my opinion is the two glasses are original, top glass being bowed, nicer looking than any of those that are pictured. $1250-$1500. and the 8 inch dial is signed and very clean. The move- ment runs 8 days and strikes on a long rod. Ly-Ingraham 89. $300 #242. $300-$500. Seth Thomas hanging clock, “Office No.2”, ca 1884. It has been many years since I have sold this rare model. Evi- 81. $200 dently they did not make very many. This 26 inch Ansonia Clock Co. metal case mantel clock, high walnut case is clean and polished, looks near “Orienta”, ca 1894. One of a series of metal clocks perfect. If it had the original painted picture of the that are all very similar. The metal case is 16.5 inch- female on the bottom glass it would be extraordi- es tall, was expertly refinished, and retains all its nary. Both glasses are original so the painting evi- original parts. Beveled glass in the brass sash, two dently disintegrated. The painted metal dial is orig- piece porcelain dial that is signed and perfect, inal as are the hands, pendulum bob, and very original hands, and an open escapement. On the good black label inside. All the metal ornaments back is the original metal cover. Inside is the 8 day are intact and came with the clock. Inside is an 8 movement that is running and striking a gong on day time only movement, signed and is running. Ly-Seth Thomas half hours and hours. The pendulum is correct. A #1065. $300-$500. very nice clock for this minimum, and it is larger in person than the catalog leads you to believe. Ly- 90. $110 Ansonia #1589. $250-$400. Seth Thomas mantel clock, “Prince”, CA 1904. The wood case has an adamantine finish, adamantine onyx columns, and gilt metal orna- 86. $310 ments all around. The case is 16.5 inches Seth Thomas miniature pillar and scroll, wide and 12 inches high, complete and all “Cambridge”, ca 1928. The mahogany case is 25 original. The adamantine is near perfect inches tall, complete and all original. It has an 8 day and doesn’t even have cigarette burns on movement that is running and striking a finely top. We smokers were such idiots. To not tuned gong on half hours and hours. This clock has be a refinished “black”, this one is as good

13 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures as it gets. I have seen them refinished sell for up to $750. And boy base and all of another label remains on the back. were they beautiful. This clock even has a beveled glass in the sash This case was stamped at the factory in 1908, the making it again above par. Good metal dial, hands, and original date it was made, although they were making the signed back metal cover. There is a partial label on the back. Inside College Series in the 1880’s. The books show the is the signed 8 day movement, correct pendulum, and is running series made in 1900 but we know that is not true. I and striking hours on a gong and half hours on a brass bell. Ly-Seth have had them factory marked in the 1880’s. The 8 Thomas, #1597. $200-$350. day movement is running strong. Ly-Seth Thomas #2261. $150-$300. 91. $110 E. Ingraham Clock Co. hanging, “Hartford”, case, ca 91. $1100 1911. Solid oak case is 32 inches high, and the wood Seth Thomas Clock Co. “Queen Anne” wall clock, ca parts are good. Both latches need attention, and 1880. Original ebony finished cherry case. It is very bottom glass has had the decals added. The 8 day difficult to get a good picture of a coal black clock. It movement is signed “New Haven”, and is not a is black inside, outside, and on the back. Inside is a calendar movement, but time only. The dial paper is complete and original black label. If you like the color relatively new so I suppose the calendar hand was you will like everything else for it is all original except put on to make it look complete. Extra holes behind the replaced paper dial. There are three hands, pen- the New Haven movement are where the original dulum, gong, door lock, glass, and all the little finials Ingraham movement was attached. The pendulum, and spindles. The movement is 8 day, heavy duty, a again I suppose, came with the New Haven move- seconds dial, and it is signed, running, and striking ment. The dial pan evidently is original to the case, but again, I can- properly. The external fly is on the strike side. The not be sure. A good looking, inexpensive clock, if you do not mind it case is 36” high. The movement, label, case, etc. are being a marriage. $200-$350. pictured in Ly-Seth Thomas, page 326. In years gone by we have sold many Queen Anne’s for over $2000. $1200-$1500. 92. $410 Ansonia Clock Company elaborate walnut cased clock, “Monarch”, 96. $300 ca 1880. From the delicate urn top to the drawer in the base there Seth Thomas Clock Co. pillar & scroll, “Plymouth”, ca are fancifully carved ears, ornaments, and other unusual case parts. 1921. A reproduction made by Seth Thomas with The sides have double carvings in the same manner as the “Fifth some modern improvements, and a considerably Avenue”, in other words there is a set of carvings on each side, lower price than the ca 1830 models. This clock has front and back. The clean walnut case is 24 ½” high and seemingly an 8 day brass movement, strikes hours and half all original. On the back about half of a paper label hours on a Cathedral bell (gong). Mahogany cabinet remains in place. Large metal ornaments top and case is 24” high, mahogany finials, turned columns, bottom, and a special metal sash around the dial, and good scrolls and feet. Very nice painted tablet that Ansonia only used on a very few of their bet- and painted metal dial, correct hands and pendulum. ter clocks. The paper dial was replaced. Note the Clock is near perfect and like new. Ly-Seth Thomas #2238. $300- special metal pendulum. There is a winding key, $500. correct hands, and a signed gong. The movement is 8 day, signed, clean, running, and striking. This 97. $150 model has always been popular with clock collec- Sessions Clock Company, Bristol, Conn. banjo clock, tors. Booked for $800 for several years. Ly- “Salem”, ca 1927. This clock was made during the time Ansonia #1780. $500-$750. the clock industry was changing to more and more electric clocks. In fact their first electric banjo was 93. $310 produced in 1927. This genuine mahogany case is 42 Waterbury Clock Co. banjo, “Willard No. 12”, ca 1927. inches tall with decorated glass panels, 8 inch silver Waterbury made a series of Willard banjo clocks No.1 dial, convex glass, gold plated sash, and an 8 day time thru No.14, all slightly different. This one has a mahog- only pendulum movement. On the back is part of a any finish and stands almost 33 inches tall. It has three paper label. The dial is signed, the brass pendulum bob original glasses, bottom two are reverse painted, bez- is correct, and it has tarnished brass side rails and el glass is bowed, all are very nice. On the back is a brass eagle. The4 inch tail piece was lightly glued to complete paper label. Inside is an 8 day spring time the base. I removed it so it would better survive ship- pendulum movement that is running. Original pendu- ping. A drop of glue will reattach it. A good looking, lum bob, metal beat scale, signed metal dial and cor- inexpensive banjo clock that is running. Ly-Sessions rect hands. The bottom tablet, one Waterbury was #53. $150-$300. proud of, says, “The Dearest Spot on Earth to me is Home, Sweet Home”. Ly-Waterbury #70. $400-$600. 98. $371 Seth Thomas Clock Co. walnut City Series clock, 94. $100 “Greek V.P.”, ca 1879. Walnut case is 24” high, has Seth Thomas Clock Co. walnut parlor clock, “Cornell”, one of the all its original wood parts including a pedestal with “College Series”, ca 1887. This 23 inch high case has been lightly urn on the top. It has no black goop inside, out- cleaned, and you can tell some of the black has been polished off. side, underneath, or on the backboard but it has a The glass is original, so is the pendulum bob and pendulum leader, dark original finish. It is polished and looks very signed gong base, coil gong, hands, and brass dial rings. The signed clean. It has both brass and nickel accessories. dial is an original paper. All of the paper label remains on the inside There are nickel dial rings, nickel pendulum rod,

14 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures brass gong base, and a brass pendulum. Deluxe 8 day lyre move- date indicating it was put in operation May 1, 1879. Both dials have ment is clean, signed “ST” and “Seth Thomas Clock Co. / Thomas- the original paint and both are very good with very little flaking and ton, Conn.” It still has the original Geneva stops, and strikes the have darkened over time. The hands, calendar rollers, brass bell, and Cathedral gong on the hours. The two piece original dial is signed pendulum, all look to be original to the clock. 8 day time and striking and has a few paint chips. The hands may or may not be original but upper movement is signed and running, calendar movement was are the correct type. There is most of a black label inside. I have operating when we took it from his home. This model has historical- collected City Series clocks over 40 years and I rarely see this model. ly had a high book value and was $1500 over ten years ago. Ly-Seth Ly-Seth Thomas #545. $400-$600. Thomas #257; Ly-Calendar #629. $500-$750.

99. $110 102. $1200 Seth Thomas mantel clock with ada- Welch, Spring & Co. calendar clock, “Audran, mantine finish, “Shasta”, ca 1911. The B.W.”, ca 1872. This is a rare model that collec- wood case has golden bronze adaman- tors are seeking. We have seen only three, each tine finish, with adamantine onyx col- selling for $3500-$4000, and one we know of umns and sides, and gold plated orna- sold at auction for around $4000. This case has ments and feet. The wood is two been cleaned and looks magnificent. There is toned, darker wood around the dial. considerable carving and interesting applied Undoubtedly one of their most attrac- wood ornaments all over the front, top to bot- tive adamantine cases and has always been the choice of collectors, tom. Both dials are original and the bottom dials particularly if clean and original, which this one is. We see a great always look new because they live their exist- many mantel clocks we call “blacks”, and most are cheaply made ence behind a sealed glass. The eight day calen- and in my humble opinion, unattractive, however this one is crème dar movement is running and operating properly and the bottom de crème. It has a clean sash and rings around the dial, flat glass, movement on the back of the door is changing as instructed by the and correct hands. On the back is a label and a metal back door over time movement. The bottom movement is covered with a black and the movement opening. Inside is the signed 8 day movement and gold label that usually says, “B.B.Lewis Perpetual Calendar / The pendulum. It is running and striking half hours on a cup bell and Inventor”. This one says, “B.B.Lewis Perpetual Calendar / Welch, hours on a cathedral bell. Ly-Seth Thomas #1558. $250-$400. Spring & Co. / Bristol, Conn. / U.S.A.”. Old glasses, brass bob, brass key, brass bezels, and all correct hands. The calendar dial on the 100. $1000 bottom is signed, “Welch, Spring & Co. Forestville, Conn. U.S.A.”. Seth Thomas Clock Co. Double Dial calendar clock, “Parlor Calendar This clock is near perfect. Ly-Welch, page 131. $1500-$2000. No. 10”, ca 1896. This is the early model with acorn finials on the top four corners and a fancier trim on the base. The 103. $100 walnut case is 36” high and decorated top to Seth Thomas hanging weight clock, “Regulator bottom with carved objects, turned columns, No.2”, ca 1891. Oak case is 36 ½” high, with the origi- grooves and etchings, applied wood trim, and nal finish but has been cleaned at some point but various shades of burl walnut. To me this is one has no polish, looks dull. Door lock on the side, two of ST most elaborate cases and a great progres- original glasses, and an old label inside. The dial is sion in case styles since their beginning in the original and typical of ST dials as it has some flaking, 1860’s. This case has been lightly cleaned and but is a lot better than most old Seth Thomas clock rubbed, and is just dark enough to have a nice dials. It has three correct hands, and the dial is aged look. As far as we can tell it is complete, signed. Pendulum bob, wood stick, and the pulley all original, has no repairs. The dials have been are original. The brass weight is not original but professionally repainted by The Dial House with looks fine in the clock. You can buy a correct weight all names and trademarks the originals would from Timesavers or on EBay. They are not difficult to have had. The hands, rollers in the lower dial, brass bob, and two find. The white spot t the bottom left in the picture large iron weights, all look to be original. The large weights descend is a piece of paper I failed to remove. Everyone should have at least each side of the case. The 8 day time movement and perpetual cal- one Seth Thomas Regulator No.2. They have to be America’s favor- endar movement are operating properly and it strikes the hours on ite clock. Ly-Seth Thomas, pages 276-277. $600-$1000. a cathedral bell. The bell is attached to a nickel gong base. On the inside of the door is a complete black label and on the back is a fac- tory stamp indicating the clock was made February 1889. Ly-Seth Thomas, pages 110-111. In the past we have observed this model selling as high as $10,000. Our estimate for this near perfect exam- ple is $5500-$7500.

101. $400 Seth Thomas Clock Co. “Parlor Calendar No.4”, ca 1886. This early calendar clock is 25” high and one of their first they made that did not have the box look. The case is polished walnut, all original, clean and polished yet retaining its rich original walnut shade. It has nice case designs, door lock on the side, and two original glasses. It has a white label inside on the door, with a

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104. $100 ivory handle on the upper door over the dial has been replaced. A Gustav Becker Vienna Regulator, ca 1890. An excellent double-fusee model sold at Schmitts in May 2011 for $1500. $1200- and most unusual Vienna regulator It has a signed 8 $1500. day movement with a serial number #795709 that dates the movement at 1890. It strikes on a coil gong 203. $91 attached to the movement back plate. The movement, New Haven Drop Octagon #2, 1880. A very nicely case, brass weights, brass pendulum bob, and all at- refinished rosewood or mahogany-veneered case, tached case parts appear to have begun life together. 24 inches tall with a professionally repainted 12-inch One can never be sure of finials but they all appear to dial on the original pan. Both glasses are old, the match other case parts. The two piece porcelain dial is upper has been reputtied into place, the lower perfect, hands are right for the dial and brass dial matches the eglomise pattern shown in Ly’s book rings. Small seconds hand is also original. There is a on New Haven clocks, page 165. The hands are old porcelain beat scale, two door latches, and three good but probably not original. The time-only pinned 8- glasses. The large walnut case is 50” tall. Similar clocks are pictured day movement is not signed. It is running reliably. There are suffi- in Rich Ortenburger’s book, “Vienna Regulators and Factory cient remnants of the label to establish the manufacturer. $100- Clocks”. $500-$750. $175.

200. $100 204. $130 Jefferson Electric “Golden Helm”, 1958. A mystery Anglo- American Round Drop, ca. 1890. Although clock from the 1950’s. This nautically-themed clock, there is no label identifying the maker, this is typi- with hook and anchor hands and a ship’s wheel bezel is cal of Anglo-American clocks made for export to just under 8 inches high. The finish on this clock is England. The 8-day brass time-and-strike move- clean and it has a new cord. It is running reliably and ment is signed New Haven and is running and keep- quietly. This is a great clock for the sailing enthusiast. ing time, striking on a nickel bell with a very nice $100-$150. tone. The 27-inch walnut case has mother of pearl button inserts around the front, connected by very 201. $371 thin inlaid lines of an unidentified material. The Lone Trail Cigar advertiser clock, ca. 1910. This is likely painted 11-inch metal dial is probably original, with some crackling of a Japanese box clock made for Schmidt & Company the paint, and the numbering has been touched up. Both glasses cigar manufacturers out of New York City. Schmidt & are newer, and the carved door on the bottom does not have a Co. were in business from 1875 to 1915 and marketed a clasp to hold it closed. Some wear overall, but a better example number of cigar lines, each with a unique brand and than is typical. $150-$300. label. This Lone Trail brand label was copyrighted in 1901. The label continues to be a popular image, and 201. $400 if you have an original cigar box label for this brand it Seth Thomas “Pittsburgh V.P.”, ca. 1880. A 23-inch walnut case in is currently worth well over $1000. This clock is not reasonable shape. Someone used tape on the sides and the finish that valuable. The movement is unsigned, 8-day time and strike and was roughened when the tape was removed, but I is running efficiently. Everything appears original except the hands, think that can be restored with just a bit of steel including the lower cut glass and the paper dial, unfortunately wool followed by some wax. The case has been stained with oil on the right side. The original finish is very dark but cleaned but not thoroughly, so there is room for there is a nice routed pattern on the door frame, with rope twists further improvement if you prefer a freshly re- above and below. The clock is 18.25 inches high. No comparable stored look. All the trim pieces are present and in sales for this clock, but original advertisers like this retail for $400- place, but again some cleaning might be warrant- $800. ed. The dial is a new paper replacement and the dial pan may not be original, as it has been glued 202. $1010 to the brass bezel. The hands are old and correct. Atkins Clock Co. Octagon Drop 30-day, 1856-57. Irenus Atkins Behind the dial is the appropriate 8-day Seth formed the Atkins Clock Manufacturing Company in 1855, and be- Thomas movement that strikes on a shiny brass bell behind the cut gan manufacturing 30-day double-fusee octagon drop timepieces glass pendulum unique to this and just a couple of other Seth Thom- from 1856 to 1857. Prior to this he had been in as clocks. It is running and striking as expected. The glass is early partnership with Adna Whiting with an agreement 20th century and there is no label inside or out, and no date on the with Joseph Ives to use his lever spring move- back. We sold one in March of 2013 for $730. $500-$750. ment in 30-day clocks, and after 1859 the Atkins Clock Company made 8-day spring time-and-strike 206. $1471 movements, all in the same 25-inch rosewood Ansonia “Senator”, 1904. A large and impressive octagon drop case seen here. The double-fusee cabinet clock with gilded brass trimmings all movement in this clock is running steadily but around. The 22-inch high oak case has been refin- with some slight irregularity in the beat. The rip- ished and some of the brass trim has been repaint- ple molding around the octagon border is com- ed, including the gold Venus de Milo’s on the front. plete; the painted metal dial appears to be original and is in good The silver dial is in outstanding shape, bright and shape, with some alligatoring of an old varnish coating; the lower shiny, with just a couple of spots of excessive glass bears the distinctive design characteristic of these clocks, and wear. The hands are original. You can find this has been rebacked in black. We can find three weaknesses: The clock on pages 242-243 of Ly’s book on Ansonia clocks. The Ansonia hands are probably not original, the label is largely illegible, and the 8-day movement is running reliably, striking the hour and half-hour;

16 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures the strike chain is quite noisy. The pendulum bob is new. Half-a- 212. $1310 dozen sales in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, most recently (2011) E.N. Welch ripple-front Round Gothic (Onion-top), 1848-1857. J.C. for $1900 at Harris. $1840-$2100. Brown manufactured ripple-front “onion-tops” in the late 1840’s, and later was bought out by Elisha Welch about 1856. Welch contin- 207. $200 ued to manufacture ripple-fronts through the late 1850’s. The label Seth Thomas “Oregon”, 1883. With the “Cocobola finish” and mar- in this clock is so dark that it can only be determined that it is a quetry ornamentation on top. No doubt the finish on Brown/Welch label; there are several examples of such labels where this 19.5-inch case has been renewed, but it looks great. either Brown or Welch is indicated as the primary manufacturer. There is a split to the wood at the top of the door, but Some were manufactured under a Forestville label. The movement otherwise no significant flaws. The dial was repainted in this ripple-front is signed E.N. Welch, and by The Dial House and the hands are old, as is the door matches movements found in other Welch bee- glass. The Seth Thomas 8-day time-and-strike move- hives and steeples of this period. The unsigned ment needs service to get it to run. At one time it had dial is certainly old and in nice shape, probably an alarm (alarm mounting holes are filled in the back- with the original painted numerals, and shows board); it strikes the hour and half-hour on a cathedral some touch-up to a scratch between the 6 and 7. gong. No label left inside, and no date on the back. A The hands are old and correct, but the minute couple of recent sales on eBay, for $355 and $560. $355-$560. hand has been adapted from an hour hand; the upper glass is certainly original and is still held in 208. $471 by the original putty. Brown and Welch manufac- Ansonia “Register”, 1901. A porcelain clock in cobalt with a rococo tured these clocks with a variety of glasses includ- sash, beveled glass, and open escapement in a ing reverse painted as found here. It has small pieces of what ap- signed porcelain dial. Not quite 11.5 inches high by pears to be mother-of-pearl glued over losses, giving the glass pic- 13 inches wide, with no chips or evident repairs. ture flashes of opalescence from the front. There also are pieces of Ansonia 8-day movement, running and keeping brown paper glued to the back of the picture, perhaps to preserve time, striking on the hour and half-hour. Just the painting. They do not show through the front. The ripple mold- needs a touch of cleaning. $450-$550. ing is unmarred on this 20-inch walnut case and the finials are cor- rect and appear original, although one has lost its point (right rear). 209. $471 The handle on the door is not period. The wire gong is period and Ansonia “La Rita”, ca. 1895. A Royal Bonn porcelain clock in Rich Welch/Brown appropriate. The clock is running, keeping time, and Green with pink and yellow roses on the front. striking on the hour. Prices for these clocks over the last decade The signed porcelain dial has a couple of hairlines have averaged $3300 at East Coast auction houses. We sold one in between the 5 and 6, Ansonia hands, and a bev- May of 2014 for $2885. eled glass in rococo sash. There is a slight interior chip to the glass at the 11 position. The signed 213. $371 Ansonia 8-day movement with an open escape- Ansonia “Crown” crystal regulator, 1914. One of An- ment is running and striking on the hour and half-hour. The case is sonia’s more popular crystal regulators, 15.5 inches tall 11.5 inches high by 14 inches wide and has no chips or evident re- in polished brass with rich gold ornaments and base. pairs. There is some faint crazing to the front painting. $475-$600. Wear to the finish is noticeable but not excessive; the signed porcelain dial with Arabic numerals shows 210. $100 some hairlines. Four beveled glasses with no scratch- Ansonia “No. 503”, ca. 1900. A Royal Bonn porcelain es or chips, a replacement 2-jar pendulum, and a sus- clock in Cream with pink flowers on the front and pended cathedral gong. The clock is running and sides. The signed porcelain dial has no flaws, Anso- striking on the hour and half-hour. The average sale nia hands, and a beveled glass in rococo sash. The price for Crowns on eBay over the last several years is $571. signed Ansonia 8-day movement with an open es- capement is running and striking on the hour and 214. $400 half-hour. The case is 14.5 inches high by 11 inches Ansonia “Crown” crystal regulator, 1914. Just a bit wide and has no chips or evident repairs. Another uncommon mod- nicer than #682, with a fancy gold bezel and a cleaner el; Schmitt’s sold a similar one in 2012 for $650. $600-$800. porcelain dial with Roman numerals and no hairlines. The wear to the finish is again noticeable but not ex- 211. $621 cessive, the 2-jar pendulum is original, and there is a Ansonia “Reflector”, 1886. A largely refurbished ebony Reflector. fancier standing cathedral gong. Four beveled glass- Most if not all of the 35-inch case has been professionally repainted es with no chips or scratches. Running and striking in a flat black lacquer and the gold highlighting in the on the hour and half-hour, as required. $450-$550. incising restored. From all evidence it’s an original case, just repainted. The gold trim panels at the top, 211. $371 bottom, and sides are original and not repainted; the Gilbert “Octagon Drop” Maranville calendar, ca. glass is original with a very worn pattern unique to 1870. Gilbert used this simple calendar patented this model. The side mirrors are old but should be by Galusha Maranville in several models. Early beveled. There are no missing finials. The Ansonia models had a painted metal dial and signed signed paper dial is relatively new, the hands correct ‘Maranville’ at the top; you advanced the day of and old. The signed movement is running and striking the week and month by using the key to turn the the hour on a cathedral gong. The brass pendulum studs at the top and bottom of the dial, as Maran- bob has a large dent. $800-$1100. ville patented (and as on this clock). Later models

17 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures circumvented the patent by removing the studs, and you advanced looks good, but cannot be coaxed to run; the spring is fully wound. the day and date simply by sliding the dials around. At that point It will strike if you advance the hands. Not a bad looking clock; may- Gilbert could leave the Maranville name off the dial. The fit of the be you can get it running. $750-$1500. month and weekday dials to the gearing is loose on this clock, but can be managed with effort if you want to keep the calendar cur- 219. $200 rent. The dial was originally painted but this clock has a thick paper Ansonia “Tribute”, ca. 1910. This one doesn’t appear in Ly’s book on dial replacement, commonly found, with soiling evident at the Ansonia clocks. It’s 9.5 inches high, with a signed openings for the weekdays and month. The hands are correct but paper dial and a bright brass center dial and bezel, the minute hand is a trimmed replacement; the upper glass is old holding a flat glass. The hands are Ansonia hands. but the lower tablet is a newer replacement, again correct to style. A nice cobalt blue-trimmed case with no chips or The rosewood veneer on the 23.5-inch case is nearly completely loss of paint, and only the slightest crazing. The intact, with just a few small chips at the lower left edge. The 8-day signed 8-day movement is running, striking the Gilbert movement is running and the calendar is advancing. There is hours and half-hours on a flat wire gong. Signed a nice label inside showing that this clock was made for N. C. Hyde & “Tribute” on the back. A very attractive porcelain Co. Schmitt’s sold one in 2012 for $550. $450-$550. clock at an economical price. $250-$400.

216. $300 220. $160 Seth Thomas “St. Paul”, 1880. This is a really nice- Tabasco Advertiser box clock, 1920’s. A 19.5-inch wall clock made to ly refinished 21-inch walnut case with beautiful advertise McIlhenny’s Tabasco pepper sauce. The 8- burled walnut on the door, and very few nicks and day time-and-strike movement is presumably Korean, scrapes. The door was either stripped or replaced, with a large ‘K’ imprint. There is no label, inside or as it is not stained on the inside edges and the back. There are two small side glasses, a single old glass is new. In addition, several trim pieces at the front glass, and a thick wire gong. The pendulum bob top and bottom corners are missing. It has a paper is nickel or, more likely, tin. The paper advertiser dial is dial, the hands are correct, the mirrored glass pen- in good shape; the clock is running and striking. Adver- dulum is correct, with a bit of mirror deterioration tisers fetch highly variable prices, so we estimate $175- evident. The lyre-type Seth Thomas 8-day movement is clean and $450. running, counting the hours on a nickel bell. There once was a label on the interior floor, but no date on the back. There is a bit of a 221. $210 scrape, nicely touched up, on the top. The finish on this clock is New Haven “Occidental”. A great looking about as nice as you’ll find. The last time we sold one of these was (reproduction?) case, 23 inches tall, holding a New March 2013, for $750. Haven 8-day time-and-strike movement, an appropri- ate pendulum, gilded statuettes, two good side mir- 217. $171 rors, and all the ornamentation expected. There is a New Haven “Chime No. 6”, 1911. A 15-inch bracket- good paper dial on a zinc pan, held in a brass bezel style case finished in Antique Oak (although it with old hands; the glass is new. It is running and looks like mahogany) with a silvered dial and bezel, striking on a cathedral gong. $250-$350. holding a convex old glass. The four finials on top are also metal, originally silver. The finish is original 222. $171 and shows some alligatoring. There are screened Seth Thomas “Eclipse”, ca. 1890’s. This is one of windows on either side, one of which has lost the the more popular Seth Thomas shelf clocks. This interior fabric cover. The movement is an 8-day one has been refinished perfectly and has a rich time-and-strike movement that triggers the Wil- walnut color, with all the trim pieces in place on cock chime movement, playing the Westminster chimes on four the 24-inch case. The base is old but may be a re- cathedral gongs on the quarter hours. The hourly strike is on a sep- placement. The Seth Thomas lyre-style movement arate gong. The clock is running and striking the hours, and trigger- is running and striking on the hour and half-hour ing the chime movement every 15 min. The chime movement winds and retains its Geneva winding stops. The pendu- separately on the side and can be silenced. We had it cleaned ultra- lum is a replacement Eclipse bob; it has a signed sonically and adjusted for tone, but may need readjustment after paper dial, and there is a number (1026) stamped delivery (easily done). Only one sale that I can find, in 2006 at into the top of the case and also on a trim piece. The paper label Schmitt’s, for $200. It had a poor dial. $200-$400. inside looks like a replacement. This clock has an alarm that winds separately and strikes on a brass bell. We did not test it. The glass is 218. $100 a newer replacement. These clocks sell pretty consistently for French figural mantel clock, ca. 1880. This gilded around $200 on eBay. $200-$300. white metal figural on a slate base stands 22 inches tall. The gilding is in good shape, but not perfect; you 223. $461 can see some spots of wear and oxidation. The tip of French portico clock, ca. 1875. This 19-inch Brazilian the dove’s left wing is missing and the back of the rosewood-veneered case is in outstanding condition, case shows a couple of cracks. The polished slate not a chip to be found, with a blond wood marquetry base is unmarred. The black slate dial used to show on the front and top of the base and across the top the name of the dealer, but is worn off; both hands front, as well as on the four rosewood-veneered appear to be painted replacements. There is no bez- columns. There is a fancy gilded sash and a fancy el or glass, never was, and there is no door on the back. The un- gilded pendulum, and solid brass capitals and plinths signed pendule de Paris movement has an external count wheel and for the columns. The only shortcoming we can find is

18 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures the porcelain dial, which shows several fine lines and a chip at the inches tall and 15 inches wide at the base. The movement is running VIII position. The hands are interesting and unique. The unsigned reliably, striking a wire gong on the hours and keeping time. $225- pendule de Paris movement is running and keeping time, striking $350. the hours and half-hour on a bell. $400-$600. 228. $141 224. $171 Brewster & Ingrahams Round Gothic (beehive), 1843- Ansonia “Navy” reproduction. The original “Navy” tripod 1852. This prolific partnership produced clocks in clock was marketed around 1900 and was 12.5 inches tall. Bristol and sold them out of New York. This clock This Asian version duplicates everything on the original, uses the “last generation” ribbed brass movement but is 14.5 inches tall. The one-day backwind is suspended (Ly, American Clocks, Vol. 3, p. 34) with a separate in a tripod of two oars and a grappling hook with a flag alarm winding at the bottom of the case and striking attached. The clock hangs from a block and tackle, is on a separate brass bell. The signed 8-day move- overlaid on an anchor, and surrounded by a ship’s wheel. ment is running, keeping time, and striking on a wire The base is a coiled rope, completing the maritime theme. gong. The 19-inch rosewood-veneered case is in Even the dial is signed “Manufact_ by Ansonia Clock Co U.S.A.”. It good shape with no veneer losses except at the top rear of the has a dark bronze finish, a porcelain dial, and is running, one-day, a case, with a repair on the right front. The insert at the door latch is bit fast. Originals are hard to find, although we sold one in May for plastic, not ivory. The painted dial, hands, and upper glass are old, $390. You won’t have to pay that much for this very nice reproduc- the lower frosted glass is a newer replacement. There is most of a tion. $150-$250. label on the inside backboard. $125-$225.

221. $910 229. $220 Wm. Gilbert Regulator No. 14, ca. 1901. Gilbert produced this 50- Jennings Brothers Mfg. Co. Double Inkwell inch wall regulator in oak only, and this one is in fine Clock, ca. 1900. The last patent date on the back shape. It has a 12-inch dial trimmed in nickel with a of this one-day backwind clock is 1894. The back seconds dial inset. The outer paper dial is signed and and dial are both signed; there is a seconds hand presumably replaced long ago, while the inset dial, and a slight hairline at the bottom of the porce- harder to replace, is yellowed. The hands are as lain dial, behind a beveled glass. It is running, shown in the catalog photo (Ly, Gilbert Clocks, p. but a bit slow. It is molded from pot metal with 137), there is a nickeled weight with a nickel pulley an antique gold finish that shows some chipping in places, including and a bright shiny nickel pendulum bob on a wooden on the ink well lids. It is 6 inches high and 7 inches wide. One of the stick. The glass is a replacement, the pendulum bob inkwells shows a bit of chipping to the glass at the top opening, but might possibly be. The brass plate movement, 8-day, it is not evident when the lid is on. We don’t have a pen to go with time-only, with dead beat escapement and retaining this. No comparables in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, but we power, is running and keeping time. The backboard has been paint- estimate $200-$400. Provenance: Tran Duy Ly collection. ed black, as shown in the catalog photo, and there are remnants of a label on the back. A better-than-average example of this clock. 230. $211 One sold on eBay two years ago for $1100. Waterbury “Ottawa”, ca. 1891. This is one of the smaller and less common Waterbury wall clocks, at 226. $110 about 33 inches finial tip to finial tip with a 5-inch dial Ingraham “Western Union”/Sessions calendar store chapter ring. It’s an 8-day, time-and-strike, hour and clock, ca. 1911. A marriage of an Ingraham case with a half-hour on a cathedral gong. The dial board, pan, signed Sessions 8-day, time-only calendar movement paper dial and hands are replacements; all else looks and pendulum. The 36-inch oak case has a very old, original. It is listed only in walnut. There are two side quite possibly original finish as well as two very old glasses, and all glasses are old if not original. It is glasses. The paint on the upper glass appears to be running and keeping time. We sold the only one original. There is a new Sessions-signed paper dial listed in the Antique Clocks Price Guide back in 2004 with two old hands and a newer calendar hand. The for $1139. Times have changed, you won’t have to dial board has been replaced (not visible behind up- pay that much for this one. We estimate $250-$400. per glass) and the pendulum stick is too short, such that the bob extends past the end of the adjuster screw. The clock 231. $171 is running, keeping time, and the calendar is advancing. $200-$450. Telechron “The Casino”, 1932-1938. From the “Golden Age” of Telechron electric clocks, this 227. $200 cobalt-mirror model (4F71) is one of a handful of Waterbury “Arbor” iron front, ca. 1867. This is a beautifully refur- very popular and very collectable Art Deco electric bished 8-day iron front made and sold by the Waterbury Clock Co., clocks. The mirror is in excellent shape; there is a as shown on the inside green label. The gold clear glass over the metal dial. There is a bit of oil staining to the highlighting and black background is expertly silvered dial around the hands. It sits on a molded plaskon base, has repainted with additional touch-up, we think, to a new cord with an old plug, and is running reliably. $175-$250. some of the outside flowers. The inner flowers, below the dial, are original, with some touch-up 232. $171 to losses. The entire front has been lacquered; Jerome & Co. “Anglo-American Round Drop”, ca. 1885. The 28-inch the paper dial is a newer replacement and the case, with extensive marquetry around the bezel, door, and base glasses are new, as is the pendulum bob. The was likely made in England, with the movement being imported hands are old replacements. It is a heavy clock, 20 from the New Haven Clock Co. As evidenced by the label, these

19 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures clocks were also sold in the US. Some of the inlay is es. Backwind time and alarm, one-day, both working. lost at the bottom of the bezel, and the tip of the Coin slot in back (bank) with blank for label, but no scroll is missing on the right side; veneer has chipped cover over base. Convex glass is scratched in the cen- off of the bottom where it meets the wall. The dial ter, paper dial is clean. $50-$100. glass is new, the lower door glass old, the dial is old paper, the hands are probably replacements, and the 238. $131 pendulum bob is correct to New Haven clocks. The F. Kroeber “Brilliant”, ca. 1880. An iron-front clock, 16.75 inches tall, pinned New Haven-signed movement is running and painted slate gray. The catalog listing on page 230 striking appropriately. $175-$250. of Ly’s book on Kroeber clocks describes this clock as being in bronze, and shows contrasting 233. $360 coloring to the bas-relief. There is an old glass Seth Thomas Regulator No. 2, reproduction, 1978. Made from a kit, held in place by new putty, an old nickel bezel and as indicated by the pencil notation on the back dedi- dial ring, an unsigned paper dial, and two replace- cating the clock to his second bride, Virginia, by Har- ment hands. The signed 8-day time-and-strike old Strobel on Apr 14, 1978 (Harold’s first wife, Edna, movement is running, keeping time, and striking died in 1972). The oak case is in excellent shape, the on a nickel bell on a painted Kroeber bell mount. painted dial is clean and flawless, while the pendulum The pendulum is correct to the model and there is bob shows some scuffing. The clock is running and a Kroeber beat scale on the back wall. No label, keeping time. Harold, a high school biology teacher front or back. Given that there are additional screw holes in the and an avid clock and watch collector, and Virginia bezel that do not match the case, the dial and bezel are likely re- ran an antique shop near Minneapolis. Harold died in placements. Close inspection reveals that only the high surfaces on 2011, Virginia, 85, still lives in the Little Apple. You can the case are painted, with the recessed surfaces still in a dark learn a lot with Google. Reproduction No. 2 Regula- bronze finish. Repainting in a brighter color would really make this tors in oak sell for an average of $400 on eBay. clock stand out. No sales records that we can find. $135-$250.

234. $21 239. $180 Unknown copper cast clock. No maker’s mark any- Waterbury Heron, ca. 1906. Offered in oak only, a 12- where on this 12-inch high copper-finished clock. The inch dial with pressed wood around the doors. The tin-can backwind movement with alarm is clearly old, dial pan was replaced when we were young and with an old yellowed paper dial, but there is a “Pat holds a clean unsigned paper dial with original hands. Appl for” stamp inside the base on one side, and The lower glass is original, the upper glass over the “2002” on the other side. The clock is running but the dial replaced. It has a correct Waterbury pendulum, a hour hand doesn’t move, so that’s a bit disappointing. signed beat scale, and a signed 8-day time-only move- The alarm bell is the brass outer cover on the back, ment, running and keeping time. It is 32 inches tall with patent dates of 1888 and 1889. I suppose it’s a marriage of a and has a nearly complete label, behind plastic, on modern case with an old unsigned tin can movement. $25-$50. the back. A penciled note says it was sold in 1911. No recent sales on eBay or ACPG. $150-$250. 231. $10 Metal desk clock, ca. 1931. We can find no maker’s mark anywhere 240. $81 on this clock, although it looks very much like a Lux model. It is Ansonia “Regulator A”, 1906. The 32-inch refinished stamped “Made in the USA” on the dial. The spelter golden oak case matches the Regulator A style and is case is 5.5 inches high and 6.75 inches wide, with a clearly old, but there is no label and the 8-day time- light bronze finish that is chipped off in places. When only movement is stamped ‘SD’. The pendulum stick you wind it the hands spin and it rapidly unwinds, so and bob also appear to be replacements. The dial something is not quite right. $10-$25. pan is old with a new paper dial, the hands are new, neither glass is old, and the lettering on the lower 236. $71 glass is pressed on. The clock is running and keeping Ansonia “Repeater”, ca. 1914. Finished in Japanese time. $100-$200. Bronze over spelter, 9.5 inches high. There is an “on- off” slide on the front under the dial and a “long alarm 241. $110 -repeat alarm” switch on the back. The alarm winds American Clock Co. “Juno”, ca. 1867. N. M. Muller cast this 19-inch separately and strikes a bell under the clock. The pa- iron front and sold it to a variety of resellers, including the American per dial says “Repeater” with the Ansonia trademark, Clock Co. ACC, in turn, bought movements from various suppliers but the case and movement are identical to the and sold the assembled clocks out of their New York sales room. “Rattler” (page 55 of Ly’s book, Ansonia Clocks & This clock has the best bronze finish you’ll find and appears to have Watches). As there is no “Repeater” model shown in Ly’s book, we’ll been professionally replated. It depicts a peacock assume that this is a name change and not a swapped movement. on the left and the Roman goddess Juno on the The Rattler has the same “intermittent” alarm function. The book right (commonly associated together), both placed says a one-day movement, but we haven’t been able to get it to run. in a garden setting. Juno was the goddess of love One Antique Clocks Price Guide sale, 2003 for $70. $70-$100. and marriage, married to her brother Jupiter, and was the guardian of Roman women. Inside is a 237. $10 Waterbury 8-day time-and-strike movement that Ingraham bank alarm clock, 1930-1950? A spelter case with a brass strikes on a wire gong. It is running and striking as finish and some wear, 6.75 inches high. Signed paper dial, 3.5 inch- expected, but the pendulum is a bit short, suggest-

20 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures ing that it is a replacement movement. There is a good label inside, Clocks Price Guide sales (two sales over a decade ago) and no sales two old glasses held in with glazier’s putty, an old paper dial and in the last several years on eBay. I would have thought it was more new hands. If you’ve ever wondered what an iron front might have common than that. $350-$500. looked like as it came from the factory, this might well be it. Sculp- tured iron fronts sell on eBay from $100-$250. 246. $410 Ansonia “La Vendee”, 1904. Royal Bonn porce- 242. $1210 lain in apple green with pink and white roses on Ansonia “Archduke”, ca. 1906. A crystal regulator the front, 15 inches tall. Rococo sash, beveled with a white onyx top, columns, and base, 15.75 glass, signed porcelain dial with no flaws. There inches tall and 12.75 inches wide. There is a crack in appear to be two well-done repairs/touch-ups to a top left side piece and some repairs to the two the left front foot and to the peak over the right left columns, but the repairs aren’t obvious. There foot, and there is some loss of the gold highlight- is a flawless signed Ansonia dial with a visible es- ing on the sides. The signed Ansonia movement capement, a half-hour-strike signed movement, is keeping time and striking appropriately. $500-$600. imitation mercury pendulum jars, and a fancy wire gong stand. The brass case and gilt ornaments could stand a bit of 247. $171 cleaning/polishing. The clock is running, striking, and keeping accu- Gilbert “Curfew” 1914. Gilbert made three bell rate time. This model retailed for $78 in 1906, the equivalent of top models and this is the most common; it can $2,052 in today’s money. That’s a lot of money to get the time, and be found on page 180 in Ly’s book on Gilbert not a lot of these clocks were made. There is only one sale listed in clocks (these clocks were omitted from the in- the Antique Clocks Price Guide, $1500 in 2011 at Harris. $1200-$2000. dex). It is also listed as No. 2200, as shown on a Gilbert label on the bottom of the clock. It is 243. $410 wood with a marbleized finish on the sides; that Ansonia “La France”, 1914. A 13-inch dark pink-to-mauve porcelain finish shows some craquelure and fading here, clock with an unusual asymmetrical design, gilt some paint spots, as well as some chipping on the left side. The highlights, and pink and white roses on the front. A front has patterned gold incising, and there is gold trim band bit of crazing on the sides and back, but not exces- around the base. The metal feet and bell top show fairly typical sive. A couple of very fine hairlines in the dial, again wear, the bell itself is brass. The signed dial is the original celluloid, not noticeable, with a French rococo sash and bev- in good shape, and the hands are correct. There is a convex glass in eled glass. The signed movement is running and the bezel. The movement is signed, running 8 days and striking the striking on the hour and half-hour. The baseboard bell on top on the hour and half-hour, and keeping time. Curfews has been replaced. Only one sale on the Antique sell for an average of $210 on eBay. $150-$250. Clocks Price Guide, $949 at Schmitt’s in 2010; no recent sales on eBay. 248. $210 Ansonia Brass & Battery Co. “Ruin”, 1860-1869. 244. $171 Ansonia Brass & Battery was the precursor to American Clock Co. “Arbor”, 1857. This 17.5-inch the better known Ansonia Brass & Copper Com- iron front was made by the F. S. Otis Foundry in pany, and the successor to the Ansonia Brass New York in 1857, as stamped into the inside of Company. AB&B did not make many clocks, and the base. The one-day, time-and-strike movement there are none listed in the Antique Clocks Price is unsigned, and the clock was marketed by the Guide. The Ruin was also marketed by Water- American Clock Company of New York. Gosh, the bury (and perhaps others) and there is an N Mul- finish must be original, it is dark and shows con- ler Foundry stamp under the dial rim. The metal siderable craquelure; the flowers are chipped and front is spelter, spray-painted a reddish brown color, with some worn. There is one piece of mother of pearl on wear. I doubt that it is original, as our iron-front collector restored the left below the dial. The dial is very, very old many of his iron front clocks. The brass 8-day time-and-strike move- paper, the hands are old, the glasses probably replaced. It is run- ment is signed N Pomeroy, Bristol, CT, and is running and striking on ning and keeping time, with some stickiness to the strike. There is a an iron bell. The dial is very old paper, with much wear, and the old good label inside. If you like them original, here you go. This would glass has been reputtied into place. Note the impressed brass AB&B have been a beautiful clock when new - note the restored one we Co. label on the back. The clock is 12.5 inches high and I can’t figure have in this auction for comparison (No. 227). ProClocks sold one in out why it’s called “Ruin”. I do note a mouse or rat on the lower similar condition on eBay in April for $281. $175-$300. left, and a snail in the middle bottom, with vines running up the side. I guess it’s a ruin. No sales records, but iron fronts typically 241. $360 sell in the $150-$250 range. Ansonia “Peer” crystal regulator, ca. 1914. A rich gold finish, now polished to a coppery patina in many places. A toothbrush and 249. $300 some spray cleaner would remove the brass polish EN Welch Onyx mantel clock, ca. 1890. Welch did left in the curls and crevices. Twelve inches high, not make many figural clocks, and I can’t find this beveled glasses all around, jeweled pallets, a one in Ly’s book on Welch clocks; it may be a spe- signed porcelain dial with one small fracture at the cial order. Welch did make some marble and onyx right winding arbor. Fancy standing gong and the mantel clocks, and a similar model is found on original 2-jar pendulum, more ornate than found on page 314, including the Patti movement and open many other models. Running, striking on the half- escapement found here. I can’t determine who is hour and counting the hours. No recent Antique posed sitting on top and couldn’t find the same or

21 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures a similar figure offered by other clock makers. He holds a cane and foundry stamp. The movement is signed New Haven a book or satchel, and still has a most of his gilt coating. Do you and is running, 8 days, and striking on a wire gong. know what famous historical figure it is? The onyx case has suffered The upper glass is old, held in by old but not original some cracks and repairs, as is typical of these heavy but fragile cas- putty, the lower glass newer. The paper dial is an old es. The porcelain dial is signed and is flawless. The 8-day Patti replacement, the hands are old. A good label inside, movement is running, striking on the hour and half-hour. There is a from an uncommon maker; only 10 BB&C Co. listings brass button foot missing off the back right which will need to be in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. Sculptured iron replaced for it to sit level, and the back cover is missing. The clock fronts like this retail on eBay for $100-$250. with statue on top is 16.25 inches tall and 11 inches wide. $300-$400. 214. $130 210. $10 Ansonia “Surrey”, 1910. Advertised with a “Colonial Sessions “Western Show Horse”, ca. 1950’s. Brass Finish”, this all metal clock stands 10.5 inches These were popular clocks back in the 1950’s, high with a 4-inch brass dial. The finish is due for when “westerns” as movies and TV shows some polish, but this clock is in better condition than were popular. This one has a nice bronze most clocks you see like this, where the finish has patina, chain reins, and a Sessions electric been polished down to the copper base. The dial clock with a convex glass cover; it is running numbering is also better than typical. It is running, and keeping time. Green felt on the bottom. with a signed round movement, 8 days with a half- $50-$100. hour strike on a cathedral gong. The strike arm needs adjustment to strike the gong. A beveled glass in the bezel. No sales records 211. $131 for this clock, and no recent sales records for either of the two oth- Terry & Andrews gothic iron front, 1850-1854. The er clocks in this series (Blenheim and Hampshire; Ly, Ansonia Clocks very dark label shows that this clock was made in and Watches, p. 854). We estimate $569-$200. Ansonia, Conn. after Theodore Terry and Franklin Andrews moved their business to Ansonia (Derby) 211. $2810 to form a new business with Anson Phelps, the Guilmet Mystery clock, ca. 1890. A black marble original Ansonia Clock Company. The factory base, 9 inches by 8 inches, on gilded metal feet with burned and the business ended in 1854. The re- gold-filled incising in front; lion’s head handles on poussé brass dial reads “Ansonia Clock Co. Anso- either side; a black marble dial with gold numerals nia, CT, USA” and is found on a number of T&A behind a brass rococo sash and thick beveled glass. clocks from this period of their partnership. The The robed girl stature stands 14 inches tall and holds gold decorative paint is still in good shape and all the beveled glass pendulum in her left hand; the the MOP appears to be present. Both glasses are old, the hands spelter casting has a dark green patina with a gold may be replacements. The 8-day movement is signed Terry & An- belt and earrings. The serial numbers match on the drews, Bristol, CT, running, keeping time, and striking on a wire base and statue (446). The clock stands 24 inches gong. The iron case is 15.5 inches tall, and heavy. No matching ex- tall and weighs 34 lb. There are no chips to the pol- amples in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, but similar clocks with ished marble base; there is an inside chip to the paper dials sell on eBay for over $200. $135-$250. glass at the hinge. The statue’s left upper arm shows several partial stress fractures from the back and top. The movement is signed 212. $810 Breveté GLT (Guilmet) and is running, at least 8 days, and striking on Chelsea Clock Co. “No. 1 Pendulum”, 1915-1919. A the hour and half-hour on a steel bell. It is a bit sensitive to the ori- clock designed for schools, offices, and public entation of the statue on the base but is easily adjusted, as is the buildings, according to the Chelsea catalog. The 34 pendulum length to adjust the beat. A fascinating clock when you -inch case is quarter-sawn oak with a medium stain, see it run, as the statue rocks imperceptibly back and forth. Guilmet the 12-inch dial repainted and signed, the hands Mystery clocks consistently sell between $4000 and $6000 at East correct, either repainted or replacements. The Coast auction houses; Harris sold a similar clock in 2011 for $5500. upper glass looks like a replacement, the old lower Provenance: Tran Duy Ly collection. glass has been painted in Howard colors, but origi- nally was clear. The 8-day time-only movement, 216. $410 with “cut, polished steel pinions, recoil escape- Wm. Gilbert “Caliope”, ca. 1885. This is one of a handful of Gilbert ment and extra heavy plates” is signed and carries clocks that stand a cut above the average Victorian parlor clock. the serial number 11234. It is driven by an old iron The walnut case is 24.5 inches tall with a beautiful burl walnut ve- weight (numbered ‘70’, this clock wants to be an E. Howard clock) neer on the door frame and elaborately carved that falls behind a replacement weight shield. There is no label, side arms and crest. The door glass is old but the inside or back. There should be a pendulum tie-down, but it is gone. decorative pattern shows very little wear; the dial The clock is running and keeping excellent time. The average sale is newer glossy paper. The pendulum is cut glass, price for oak versions of this clock on eBay is $878. $850-$1200. normally seen on the Amphion and a few other high-end Gilbert clocks. The 8-day, time-and-strike 213. $111 movement is signed and running easily, striking on Bristol Brass and Clock Co. “Oak Leaf”, ca. 1867. BB&C Co. was a cathedral gong. There is a label on the back. formed in 1850 and lasted until 1903, but did not make clocks for This case was also used by Kroeber on the “5th most of that time. This model was also marketed by Waterbury Avenue”. Calliope (spelled with two ‘l’s) was the (and perhaps others), and came in a bronze finish; this case has Greek muse of poetry, and inspired Homer. Only been repainted. The 19-inch case is spelter and I could not find a one sale of this clock in the Antique Clocks Price Guide, way back in

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2004 for $800. Not a common clock, and this one is in outstanding ing. There is rosewood veneer on the sides but it is missing from condition. $500-$800. the wooden bezel and lower door. $100-$175.

217. $1 261. $191 Gilbert & Robert Shaw (Lux) alarm clocks. The Wm. Gilbert No. 3022/University store regulator, ca. 1929. Adver- Gilbert has a Bakelite case with a convex glass tised with a “Flat mahogany finish” as seen here, and as described in in a worn brass bezel, and a foil dial with some Ly’s book on Gilbert clocks, page 160. The case dimensions (34” x corrosion. It is running, 1 day, and keeping 17.5”) more closely match the University model time, probably from the 1940’s. Not sure the (page 153), as does the lower glass. Note that the alarm works, as the handle to wind the alarm is missing. The Lux base is a rough replacement. Both glasses are very “Juliet” has a nickel case on two peg legs and a plastic cover over old and likely original to the clock, with the original the dial that is worn and scratched. It is not running, and the handle paint and lettering, touched up slightly; both are to wind the alarm is missing; it is from the 1960’s. Two clocks for better than one typically sees. The dial is thick one money. $5-$10. glossy paper, with some particulate foxing; the hands are Gilbert issue. The pendulum bob is worn 218. $290 and the stick has been shortened. The Gilbert move- Seth Thomas Column & Cornice, 1850-1865. This Empire sleigh-front ment, with steel frames, is running and keeping clock is 32.5 inches high with near perfect rosewood veneer all time, striking a wire gong on the hour and half-hour. around, two original matching glasses in very good condition, a Store clocks in decent condition like this one retail for $200-$350. replacement dial and old and appropriate hands. There are some veneer repairs on the top edge of the cornice, a 262. $200 few missing pieces in the corners, and I think the Ingraham “Bison”, 1934. A 33-inch oak case with a base edge has been re-veneered all around. The medium-tone finish. The 12-inch paper dial over columns are mock turtle shell in nice shape and metal is original, and shows some staining along the the capitals and plinths are gold leaf, unrestored. right side; the hands are original. The glasses may There is most of a good Plymouth Hollow label be replacements; the catalog photo shows inside, and the typical 8-day time-and-strike “Regulator” stenciled on the lower glass. The re- movement is signed, Seth Thomas, Plymouth painted spelter pendulum bob is Ingraham issue, Hollow, and has the American eagle imprint. It is and the 8-day time-only signed movement is running running and striking appropriately, with an old and keeping time. Comes with a signed Ingraham bob and two old/original 8-day iron weights. key. $200-$400. The glass over the dial is old and I don’t think any of the glasses has ever been replaced. Other than the dial, this 263. $171 clock is all original and is an outstanding example of early ST Empire Nicholas Muller & Sons “Indian Hunter”, ca. 1870’s. Like the one we clock. One of the best we have offered in a while. $300-$500. sold in January of this year, this iron-front clock has been refinished to highlight the intricate detail of 219. $281 the casting. The statue of a Native American hunt- Elisha Manross Empire, 1843-1853. If you have a copy of Forestville ing with a bow and his trusty German shepherd (!) is Clockmakers by Roberts and Taylor the cover shows a similar Manross taken from the life-size statue in New York’s Central clock with this unusual carved fish splat. Manross worked in several Park by John Quincy Adams Ward, “the dean of partnerships prior to starting his own business in American sculptors”. The movement in this clock is 1843, which he ran until bankruptcy intervened, a signed Waterbury 8-day, time-and-strike brass two years before his death in 1856. The mahogany movement that is running and keeping time, striking veneer on this 38.5-inch clock is in excellent shape. the hours on a brass bell. The dial is porcelain with a Both columns are veneered as well, with some hairline between the II and III, and chips around the chips showing on the left column. The fish splat is winding ports; the hands are fancy. The bow is a replacement. original and remarkable. The feet appear to be There is a faint label on the back which represents a reseller in New replacements and the middle and lower glasses York. As noted, we sold one of these in January of this year for are both repainted on new glass. The dial glass is $850, and it lacked the bow and the porcelain dial, and an un- old, as are the metal dial and hands. The brass 8- refinished one sold on eBay last year for something under $700. day, time-and-strike weight-driven movement is Signed key included. $650-$850. unsigned, there are two new weights and an old pendulum bob. A good label on the backboard. The clock is run- 264. $100 ning reliably and striking on a wire gong. Both key escutcheons are Seth Thomas “Berkley”, 1908. A rich mahogany missing and there is no key; I would guess the lower door has been case, 11.5 inches high, with gold trimmings rebuilt, with the original veneer. $300-$500. (repainted), a porcelain dial, and four metal feet. The glass is flat but should be beveled, the 260. $121 only shortcoming I can find. The clock and E.N. Welch Drop Octagon calendar, ca. 1889. A movement are shown on pages 719 and 721 of 24.5-inch case with the original 12-inch painted Vol. 2 of Ly’s new books on Seth Thomas clocks. metal dial, period hands, a new upper glass and an The type 89C 8-day movement is running and old lower glass. The signed movement, 8-day time keeping time, striking a bell on the half-hour and only with calendar and an old pendulum bob is a cathedral gong on the hour. This clock should be considered a running, keeping time, and the calendar is advanc- ‘city series’ clock, as it was named after a town in Massachusetts.

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Most recent sale listed in the Antique Clocks Price Guide was for ment with brass plates front and back that I cannot find illustrated $130 at Schmitt’s in 2006; one sold on eBay last year for $128. $125- for any of his other clocks. It is unsigned, as is typical for Terry. SB $150. Terry more commonly made movements with a brass blackplate only; the large escape wheel and large opening in the dial to view 261. $310 the movement is characteristic of many of his clocks. Unfortunate- Hiram Hunt (Boardman & Wells) carved column & ly, I can’t get this movement to run for more than a short while, but splat shelf clock, 1832-1843. What a great example I think it is probably only a 30-hour, as many of his clocks were. The of a better quality Connecticut shelf clock – note strike side also needs adjustment, as the stop arm is not catching the carved columns and carved eagle splat, and the gearing and it strikes continually until the weight reaches the the alarm mechanism, not often found on wooden bottom. Note the unusual weights, thin so as to fit in the 3-inch works clocks. The tablet was repainted by Tom deep case. A similar case, with rounded sides and a large opening in Moberg; both glasses are old, the dial glass ap- the dial can be seen on page 164 of Distin & Bishop, The American pears to have never been out of the door. The Clock. Both glasses are old, the upper glass never having been out of wooden dial is no doubt original as well, as are the the door, and the mahogany veneer is in good shape, with a few hands. The lock escutcheon is plastic, the only edge chips at the top and bottom. The escutcheon is ivory, and of shortcoming. The 30-hour movement has been course the lower glass has a replacement lithograph behind it of professionally overhauled and is running and counting the hours on President US Grant’s family. You can have it reverse painted as it the wire gong; the alarm strikes on the bell on top of the case. should be. There is no label. The opening in the back of the case There are three old weights (the heavier weight on the strike side) allows you to advance the strike. and an old pendulum bob. The clock stands 32.5 inches tall. $350- $500. 269. $271 Waterbury “Shelf” clock, ca. 1860. The case style 266. $271 was patented by C. Jerome in 1857 and was manu- Boardman & Wells column & splat shelf clock, 1832-1843. Chauncey factured by Waterbury with a signed Jerome 30- Boardman and Joseph Wells were one of the largest makers of hour, weight-driven movement. There is a label on wooden works shelf clocks during this period, and the inside of the door glass divider “Patented April this is a typical example. This 32-inch case has 1857” attesting to the Jerome claim on the case. good mahogany veneer all around, an old wood- Both glasses are old and have been rebacked; the en dial in good shape, two old and correct-to- dial is an old glossy paper replacement. There is a period hands, and old glasses top and bottom; good label inside, with two 30-hour weights and an the upper glass does not appear to have ever old bob. The rosewood case stands 26.75 inches high with no miss- been out of the door, the lower glass has been ing veneer, but a couple of small side-trim pieces are missing from repainted. The columns and splat also have been the top of the right chimney cap. The movement is running and repainted. There is a good label inside and two striking as expected on an old wire gong. A nice looking clock, don’t old 30-hour weights, along with an old pendulum you think? $250-$400. bob, a winder, and a key that operates the door. The wooden 30-hour movement has some missing teeth on the 270. $110 strike side great wheel and so does not strike correctly (all the other Chelsea Clock Co. art deco desk clock, 1940-1944. strike gears look fine, and can be turned by hand). The time train is This 5-inch high swivel-mounted desk clock is running correctly, and should you wish to wind it every day or so it housed in a highly polished bronze case and will keep good time. $250-$400. stand, weighing over 4 lb. There is some wear and oxidation to the metal, including a back cor- 267. $10 ner of the top of the case. The dial is metal be- Waterbury “Daunt” dresser clock, 1914. A 7-inch hind a beveled glass. The backwind movement, signed “Chelsea high easel clock made of spelter or brass (can’t be Clock Co. / Boston U.S.A.” is running and keeping time, 8 days. The sure which it is here), originally with Rich Roman serial number (277277) puts its date of manufacture between 1940 Gold Plating, now showing some wear, and a 2.5- and 1944. A great art deco look. $150-$250. inch celluloid dial, time only, one day backwind. The dial is yellowed, the minute hand is loose, the knob 271. $121 to set the time on the back is missing, and the clock only runs for a Chelsea Clock Co. art deco desk clock for Tiffany, short while. Well, you can’t expect too much from a 100-year old 1940-1944. Same as #775, but this one has a dial novelty clock. Signed on the back and on the dial. $50-$100. signed “Tiffany & Co / New York” and is not run- ning. There is some corrosion to the front left 268. $110 edge on this one. Signed movement with serial Silas B. Terry “round-front”, ca. 1840. Silas Burnham Terry, son of number 277245. Eli Terry, produced a number of interesting brass clock movements but was never a very successful 272. $10 clock manufacturer. The distinctive paper-over- Seth Thomas “Como”, 1921. A mahogany cabinet wood slat dial on this clock can be found on some with an inlaid wood border, 5.25 inches tall, with a of his other clocks from this period; if you have silvered dial and an 8-day, 4-jewel backwind move- Ball’s book American Shelf and Wall Clocks you ment #103. Case is good, brass bezel shows some can see an example on page 85. Note that the wear and some scratches to dial. Convex glass is location is “Terry’s Ville”, later Terryville, formerly beveled. Clock is running and keeping pretty good East Plymouth. This clock has an unusual move- time. Nice. $50-$100.

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273. $371 276. $1100 Franklin-Morse parlor calendar clock, ca. 1885. Franklin and Morse W. Batty & Sons, Manchester, English bracket obtained a patent for their calendar mechanism in 1883 and pur- clock, ca. 1900. A 16.5-inch oak case with an chased shelf and wall clocks from E.N. Welch. This case style ap- arched top and carved inset. The gold and silver pears to have been made exclusively for Frank- dial has a fast/slow adjustment and chime/silent lin-Morse, and can be seen on page 44 of Ly’s setting, with fancy cut hands and the manufactur- book Calendar Clocks, where the calendar ers tag at the bottom. There is some slight wear movement and back labels are also shown. The to the dial. The sides have scrolled cutouts 22.5-inch case is either walnut or cherry (seems backed with red fabric. The unsigned brass move- more like cherry), with a bit of a glossy over- ment strikes two cathedral gongs on the quarter coat. All the ornamentation is present; the glass hours and is running and keeping time. There are three keys, one to is old, and as shown in the Ly photo. The dial is wind, one to lock the front door and one for the back door. A ser- worn paper with red calendar dates. The hands vice record on the back door, dating to 1911. $1200-$1500. are correct but may be replacements, the calen- dar hand is not correct and should be a simple 277. $1800 straight calendar hand. Replacements are available from TimeSav- New Hampshire stenciled mirror clock, ca. 1825. You may have seen ers. The clock strikes the hours and half-hours on a cathedral gong. the article in the October, 2011 issue of the Watch & Clock Bulletin The 8-day Welch-signed movement is running and keeping time. on this clock; you can read Snowden Taylor’s Welch provided a glass insert pendulum originally but this one is analysis and see many more pictures of this very labeled “Eclipse” and probably a replacement; easy to replace. unusual time, strike, and alarm New Hampshire Note the three labels on the back preserved behind a Plexiglas mirror clock here. The maker of this clock is un- sheet. Can only find one Antique Clocks Price Guide sales record, at known, but there are several possibilities includ- Schmitt’s in 2007 for $850, and a couple of recent eBay sales for ing Simon Willard & Son, John Sawin, John Stow- $650 and $382. $400-$700. ell, and Eliphalet Horne. The stenciling on the columns is quite uncommon, as is the presence 274. $111 of an alarm. The alarm on this clock has not been Seth Thomas “Cottage J”, ca. 1886. A 9.5-inch rose- seen before, and is wound by pulling up the wood-veneered case in excellent condition, original weight by hand in the right channel. The strike glass and door handle, a replacement metal dial and chain is also unusual in that it has two flys. All in new hands. The 30-hour J-type movement is run- all this is a very unusual and very rare, possibly ning strongly and striking on the iron bell. Old brass experimental mirror clock from the early 1800s. The 31.75-inch by 16 bob and a replacement key. The bezel is wood and -inch case is in excellent condition; the stenciling is still clear and should be gold leaf, but has been painted. It’s due there is only a small piece of mahogany veneer missing from the for a repaint, or regilding. This clock is not com- lower left back side; the finish is all original. The mirror is almost mon; I can’t find a sales record on the Antique certainly original, backed by a wood sheet, and the interior has been Clocks Price Guide or on eBay. If you collect Seth Thomas cottage red-washed. The upper glass is old but has been expertly repainted, clocks (there are at least 25, with movements A through T) I’ll bet as has the metal dial. The hands are old and appropriate. There are you need this one. See page 225 of Ly’s Vol. 1 of Seth Thomas two long rectangular spelter weights, with the strike weight having Clocks and Movements, 7rd edition. $594-$250. been cut lengthwise, presumably to reduce the force and, along with the second fly, slow the bell-strike. There is a smaller weight 271. $110 for the alarm. It did not come with a winder, but we found one that Southern Clock Co. OG, ca. 1880. The Southern fits. The clock will run, but not reliably, and we did not test the Clock Co. was located in Andersonville, SC and alarm. We will include some printed information on this clock and a purchased cases and movements from various previous owner, Alfred C. Scott, President of NAWCC from 1959- Connecticut manufacturers, including New Haven 1961. $1800-$3000. and Gilbert. This is clearly a New Haven case and glass, and has a signed New Haven 8-day, time- 278. $2100 and-strike spring-driven movement and New Ha- J. Dewey New Hampshire mirror clock, ca. 1830-1831. Jeremiah Dew- ven fancy brass bob. Evidently Southerners fa- ey worked out of Chelsea Vermont as a clock, gold, vored Southern businesses (both before and after and silver smith. There are two listings in the An- the War of Northern Aggression), and Connecti- tique Clocks Price Guide for Dewey clocks, one of cut firms were more than happy to supply clocks to the various re- which is very similar to this one and sold at Cottone sellers in the South. This case is 26 inches tall with a nice flame ma- in 2001 for $1700. This clock is 40 inches long with hogany veneer on the front; the sides and top are stained hard- mahogany broken arch scrollwork at the top and wood. There are some noticeable missing segments of veneer on base, the original mirror in nice shape (very wavy the front edge (now stained to match the mahogany), and some but very bright), and a Moberg-repainted dial glass. less noticeable veneer repairs on the edging. The original tablet has There may have been brass urn finials on the top some losses but the image still shows well and has some nice color- corners originally. The columns appear to have ing. The upper glass is a newer replacement, as is the metal dial. been repainted but the gilding appears original, There is most of the label left inside. The clock is running robustly with some losses across the bottom. There is gold- and keeping time. Few sales of Southern Clock Co. clocks, they did painted trim on the door frame. The signed dial not appear to be a big Southern retailer, and Andersonville SC can- was probably repainted and is labeled “No. 12”. It not be found in Google Maps. We estimate $150-$250. has a time-only weight-driven movement that is Interior running, but not reliably, driven by a 2.5-lb iron weight. A winder is

25 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures included. As with #782, a rare New Hampshire mirror clock. $2500- the original finish on the dial (there was never a glass or bezel). The $4000. brass, time-only movement is driven by an 11-lb iron weight with a 12-inch pendulum; note that 279. $2100 the minute hand is counterweighted and rotates Curtis & Dunning banjo, 1821-1827. Lemuel Curtis counterclockwise behind the movement. The and Joseph Nye Dunning were partners from 1813- brass lever at the bottom allows you to start the 1827, first in Concord, MA and later in Burlington, VT pendulum swinging should it wind down. The making banjo, lyre and girandole clocks. This 34-inch clock is running easily and is ready to occupy a mahogany-case clock is gilt-trimmed (now very commanding position in your home. Due to its dark) with brass side brackets and bezel and a wood size you might wish to talk to us about delivery top finial, formerly gilded. Both glasses were re- options. There are no sales records for this or similar clocks in the painted by Tom Moberg, the lower glass showing Antique Clocks Price Guide. $6000-$10,000. two girls flying a kite with a couple of sheep. The glass over the dial is not original. The heavy metal 282. $2000 dial has the original paint with just a trace of the Birge & Fuller “wagon spring” candlestick double steeple clock, ca. signature which likely read “Warranted by Curtis & 1847. A 26-inch case veneered with mahogany; I see only one signifi- Dunning”. The hands are original and characteristic cant repair on the top left, and it blends in well. The candlesticks of Lemuel Curtis. The movement is most unusual; are in practically perfect shape and may be re- note that it has the usual keystone opening pendulum hanger, but placements, but our repair guy doesn’t think so. also has several unused mounting holes on the left (strike) side; The lower door is original and the upper door there is a corresponding opening in the dial to wind the missing was repainted by Mr. Moberg. He also touched strike train. A similar movement has been seen in other Curtis and up the lower door. All glasses are old. The metal Dunning clocks, including lyre clocks that use this movement to dial is presumably original and matches the dial strike on a piano wire strung from upper left to lower right. There is shown in Ly’s American Clocks, Vol. 3, page 215. no evidence that piano wire mounts were ever in this clock, and it is Note the large opening for viewing the brass perhaps more likely that the strike chain struck a bell mounted over movement. The hands are period replacements. the movement – note the carved out space above the movement. The 8-day movement is signed and also matches We will include some papers, including correspondence and NAWCC the movement shown in American Clocks. One Bulletin reprints from 1954 and 1967 that discuss similar clocks by of the wagon spring (Accelerating Lever Spring) Curtis. Other Curtis clocks have been found where the strike chain chains broke and has been replaced with heavy was missing, suggesting that his strike mechanism was unreliable. gauge wire. We were not able to locate a replacement chain. The This clock will run, but the crutch mount to the anchor is loose and clock is running and keeping time. Beautifully. Candlesticks are will need to be secured for the clock to run reliably. The pendulum considerably less common than cone finial double steeples and pric- swings very close to the front gears that move the hands, and the es vary with condition, from $1500 to $3700 at East Coast auction weight shield, so proper hanging will be essential. Another rare and houses in recent years. unusual clock from our early American collector/consignor. Only one similar sale in the Antique Clocks Price Guide; $2500 at Schmitt’s 283. $421 in 2014. $2500-$4500. Pickard & Punant French figural, ca. 1860. This French figural clock stands just 12 inches tall on a 280. $1200 gilt bronze base with alabaster inserts. The girl is George Hatch Regulator No. 5, ca. 1877. A 32-inch playing a tambourine with a music stand and mahogany case with most of the grain painting several horns next to her, cast in a rich bronze intact (some loss on the bezel), a very nice lower finish. The clock has a porcelain dial, no glass or glass (rebacked if not repainted), an old upper bezel. There are two very faint hairlines in the glass, an old pendulum bob and stick, and an un- dial, too faint to show in our photo. Original French Breguet hands. signed brass, time-only, 8-day movement with a The movement is signed and strikes the bell on the half-hour and proper iron weight. The way the pendulum bob counts the hours. It is running and keeping time. $500-$1000. hooks on to the end of the stick is characteristic of George Hatch clocks and the case matches the 284. $471 Hatch Regulator No. 5 in shape and size, but the National Calendar Clock Co. OG calendar, ca. 1890. The NCCCo. glass is not a match. The dial has been repainted, (Brooklyn, NY) assembled or sold calendar clocks manufactured by the hands are old if not original. The weight fell through the bot- the New Haven Clock Co. The most common tom long ago and the case has been nicely repaired. It’s a lovely clock they sold is the Fashion model sold by a clock but I can’t get it to run for more than a few minutes. Perhaps number of retailers. This clock is perhaps the you can. Includes a winder. $1200-$2000. least common; there are no sales records for this model in the Antique Clocks Price Guide. The 281. $6000 clock, movement, and calendar mechanism are Abel Stowell, Jr. gallery clock, 1820-1856. A. Stowell, Jr. was known shown on page 203 of Ly’s book Calendar Clocks. for making tower clocks; this is just a bit smaller, but was made for This is an 8-day time-and-half-hour strike brass public spaces and buildings. It is 35 inches in diameter with a 28- spring-driven movement signed by the New Ha- inch dial. The minute hand is 13.5 inches. The painted wooden dial ven Clock Co. It is running and keeping time, and is 1 inch thick in the center and is signed “Abel Stowell, Maker. the calendar is advancing. The case is 26 inches Charlestown, Mass.” Above the mainstem there is a statement of high, the front veneered in rosewood, and I think the outer edge presentation, but it is not legible, and there is considerable wear to band has been redone. The sides appear to be mahogany and the

26 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures dial mounting board is grain-painted, with some losses. The case is 306. $10 clearly of Jerome Clock Co. origin, a 30-hour OG case as indicated by “Lux Clock Mfg. Co.”, mini grandfather clock, 10 inches high. the inverted label inside. Note the covered weight pulley openings Good walnut case but missing the eagle or a finial on top. on top – both covers appear to be factory installed (and of course Signed silver dial is very different, one day backwind move- there are no pulleys or weights). I can find no evidence that the ment is running. $50-$100. case and backboard are not original to this clock; there are no un- used holes in the backboard, top or bottom, inside or out. The glass 307. $21 is old, possibly original, the black paper dials and gold hands are Waterbury Clock Co. miniature porcelain clock original, and the gold numerals on the time and calendar dials have standing 6 inches high. Painted flowers around the been touched up. The inner ring of both dials reads “Manufactured white case and a few touches of gold. The dial and for National Calendar Clock Co.” $500-$800 movement are signed. The one day backwind movement is running. $25-$50.

308. $21 New Haven Clock Co. miniature porcelain clock, 6 inches wide, 4.5 inches high. Dial is signed, has 3 good hands, one day backwind movement is not ticking. 300. $21 Case is very nice with painted flowers and gold high- Waterbury Clock Co. miniature porcelain clock, ca lighting on white porcelain. $25-$50. 1900. Pretty 7.5 inch high case with lots of gold on white. I thought, how did it survive without some of 309. $10 those sharp points not being broken off, then I saw French carriage clock in a 5.5 inch brass case. Movement them. The right foot and another piece top right. Too is signed with a lion trademark and the dial is signed but bad. Signed dial and signed movement, good hands, too faint to read. It has five beveled glasses but only one beveled glass, and the one day movement is running. has a faint corner tic. The 8 day time only movement is $25-$50. running, porcelain dial is perfect and hands are original. Case has not been polished in some time. $50-$100. 301. $10 Unsigned porcelain clock, 6 inches wide, porcelain 310. $10 dial, no seconds hand, chipped and hairlines. Case is “The Plato Clock”, ca 1902. One day movement winds fine, no breaks or chips. One day movement is run- underneath and it is running. Movement is signed by the ning. $10-$25. maker. This brass case is 6.25 inches high, has all its cards, hand pointer and four glasses. Two of the glasses 302. $21 have waves. Not a break or a crack, just waves in a cou- Three sided wood case clock, 10.5 inches high. Dials ple of corners. No doubt dropped but did not break the are signed, Made In Japan and Registered Design. glass. Case needs cleaning. $50-$100. Winds underneath and movement is running. Case needs to be tightened, metal posts on the three 311. $100 sides, are loose. $25-$50. Moving eye monkey, probably German made. Wood case is 8 inches high, very dark, hard to see the dial and 303. $21 hands at the base. Eyes do not blink, they rotate, go “Time Secretary”, clock and calendar, ca 1940. Metal around in a circle as the movement ticks. The backwind bottom is signed, “Park Sherman”, clock is not signed. one day movement is running and eyes are moving. Not Top cover is signed, “Genuine Leather”, day of the signed. $100-$200. week pages go from July 1, 1940 thru January 4, 1941. I wish they still made those today as they would be real 312. $100 handy on my desk. Metal feet underneath. Bowed glass Oswald dog, ca 1950. It is only 5 inches tall, clean and over the dial, backwind one day movement is running. original. Label underneath, backwind one day move- It is 8.5 inches by 6 inches. $25-$50. ment is running and eyes slowly move to tell you the time. Left eye reveals the hours, right the minutes. $100- 304. $10 $200. “The Plato Clock”, ca 1909. They made several styles, all similar but with slightly different configurations of the 313. $10 case. This brass case is 5.75 inches high and the numbers Silver ladies purse with watch. Probably from the early are on blue plastic, not white like most. One day move- 1900’s. The silver clasp and top is signed, “German ment is underneath, signed and running. $50-$100. Silver”, and it has some silver hallmarks. I could not get the back off the tiny watch to check the move- 301. $10 ment. The dial is not marked and the movement is “Lux Clock Mfg. Co.” mini grandfather clock, standing 11 running. $50-$100. inches high, ca 1920. Metal eagle and sash that is holding the beveled glass over the signed dial. The walnut case is 314. $21 very well done and a very good copy of the real grandfa- Cigarette lighter / Music Box. It would have been a great ther clocks. $50-$100. conversation piece back during my smoking days. Press the lighter on the top and the music plays. Signed on the

27 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures bottom, “Musical Lighter”. Excellent condition and music plays. $25- $50. 323. $10 “May-Lo / Pat Pending / Sterling”, signed on the inside 311. $21 of the folding case. Watch dial is signed, “Windsor”. Cigarette lighter with small watch. Signed, “Rivo / Swiss Not presently running. $10-$25. Made”. The watch dial is signed but I cannot make it out, may be Crawford, Burford, ?? but it does say 21 jewels. The 324. $10 watch is running and the case is very nice and certainly “Longines / Swiss” signed on the dial of this fold up stylish. $25-$50 watch. Watch case marked, “Nickel Chrome”. It is run- ning. Very nice all over. Has a loop to hook on a key 316. $10 chain. $10-$25. Ladies Compact with watch. The back of the case is signed, Kay”. The clasp is broken. The powder puff is 321. $10 signed, “Illinois Watch Case”. The compact is still Fold up watch with key chain loop. Not signed, not run- filled with rouge and powder. The watch dial is ning. $10. signed, “Rockford”. I did not look at the back of the movement, not in my pay scale. $10-$25. 326. $10 “Baldwin / 17 jewels”, marked on the dial of this fold 317. $10 up watch. Back of watch is also signed but I cannot New Haven Clock Co. mini desk clock. Gold dial is read it. Watch is running. Made to wear on a belt. signed, backwind movement is running. No wind The top is leather, the rese is silver metal. $10-$25. stem, nonetheless I shook the clock and it took off running. The plastic case is 2.5 inches tall. A nice LIT- 327. $10 TLE clock. $10-$25. “Movado / Switzerland”, signed on the dial and movement of this pocket/purse watch and case. 318. $10 One end covered in leather, loop to hang on a “The Ansonia Clock Co. New York, USA”, signed on key chain. In original used condition with normal the dial. There is a lot I don’t understand about this wear. Watch is running. $10-$25. little 2.5 inch clock. I am guessing those two protru- sions on the sides hold it in a car dash, airplane, boat, 328. $10 bicycle, ?? something. The movement wind stem is “Tiffany & Co. / Swiss”, signed on this strange little on top, and the movement is running. Bowed glass watch. You push on both ends of the case, the top over the very nice dial and hands. $10-$25. spring up revealing the watch. You can pull the watch up to keep the top from closing. It is running. 319. $21 $10-$25. “Made By The E. Ingraham Co. Bristol, Conn. USA”, signed on the dial and the movement of this unusual 329. $10 pocket watch. Two rows of diamonds, or rhine- “C. Bucherer / Swiss”, signed on the dial of this flip up stones, around the circumference of the watch. watch. Case is also signed. The watch is running. It has a Three diamonds are missing. They are glued on. Do loop for a key chain. Outside covered with leather. $10- you suppose that means they are not diamonds? The $25. watch is running. $25-$50. 330. $10 320. $10 “De Frece Watch Co. / Mimo Meter Patent / Fifteen 15 “New Haven”, signed on the dial of this unusual Jewels”, signed on the movement of this little flip up pocket watch, and it is running. It is missing the sec- watch. Case is also signed by De Frece, plus it says onds hand. Case and hands are plastic, bowed glass Switzerland. Watch is running. $10-$25. over the good dial, numerals are outside the bubble glass and painted on aluminum. $10-$25. 331. $10 Sterling Silver case. Push the ends and the top raises 321. $10 exposing the watch. You can stand the watch up “Westclox / Made In USA”, on the black dial of this 3 and that keeps the two pieces of the top from clos- inch high black plastic desk clock with easel back. Back- ing. Dial is signed, “K Reisler / Swiss”. Case signed, wind one day movement is running. Back of movement “Sterling Silver”. Watch is running. $10-$25. is signed, “Pickwick / Made By Western Clock Co.” Dial and hands are phosphorus coated for nighttime viewing. 332. $10 $10-$25. “Tavannes Watch Co. / Switzerland”, signed on the watch dial and case. This is a flip up watch like #331 322. $10 and some others above. The case is covered with “Made In Germany”, signed on the dial of this watch leather. The watch is running. $10-$25. that folds into a case. I suppose you could carry it in your purse, your pocket, on a keychain, wherever. Not 333. $21 signed otherwise. Numerals and hands coated for Wrist watch with gold band and jewels on the dial. Are the night viewing. Watch is running. $10-$25. “diamonds and rubies” on the dial real? I don’t have a clue. The dial

28 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures is signed, “Arctic / Supreme”. The gold band is signed, “1/20 U.S.A.”, all signed on the dial of this 6.5 inch high novelty clock. Ea- 12K”, and the back of the watch is signed, “10KT rolled gold sel stand on the back, movement is not running. $25-$50. plate”. The watch is running. $25-$50. 343. $10 334. $10 Sterling Silver case over the Jennings Brothers Clock Wrist watch with leather band. Dial is at an angle to Co. one day clock. The case is signed, “Sterling”. The the band. Dial is signed, “Tip Top / The New Haven porcelain dial is signed, “JBC” letters overlaid. Three Clock Co.”. The watch is running.. $10-$25. original hands, perfect dial. The clock movement is covered with purple felt and there is an easel on the 331. $10 back. $50-$100. Pocket/purse watch made to wear on a key chain or at- tached to a belt or purse. Ends are leather. Watch dial is 344. $10 signed, “Canava 17 Jewels / Shockproof”. It is running. Unusual Gravity clock standing 10 inches high. Movement $10-$25. is signed, “British Make”. It is running. Note the pendulum ball at 6 o’clock. It swings back and forth. Numerals on the 336. $10 glass dial appear to be painted by the Kindergarten class. Wristwatch with a different looking dial. Dial is signed, “Le And also, don’t you think the signature should be, “British Monde / 17 Jewels. It has “rubies and diamonds” set around Made”, not Make? It is what it is, and that is, very different. the dial. Surely they are not real. It has a Speidel band. It is $50-$100. not running. $10-$25. 341. $21 337. $10 Novelty clock, signed only, “Made In U.S.A.”. The one day Wristwatch with black dial and night viewing hands and backwind movement is running. The metal case is 8.5 numerals. Dial is signed, “Illinois”. Has a Speidel band, and inches tall. Nice and very different. $25-$50. it is running. $10-$25. 346. $10 338. $100 “New Haven U.S.A.” signed two places on the dial of Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Happy Day” figure clock, also this very unusual metal novelty clock. It stands 9 inches known as “Beer Drinkers”, ca 1933. Syroco case is 7 inch- tall, is complete and original. Beveled glass in the sash, es high, made in a variety of colors. The backwind one porcelain dial with pair of original hands, and a one day day movement is running. Ly-American Clocks, Volume backwind movement that is running. One back foot is 3, page 268. $150-$250. slightly bent. I refuse to touch it. I guess if you bend it and it breaks some Super Glue should take care of the 339. $21 problem. $50-$100. Lighthouse ?? clock and thermometer. Metal case, base to top of statue is 12 inches. Beveled glass over the unsigned 347. $21 dial. Thermometer is registering correctly. The clock pulls “Made In Germany” signed on the dial of this metal out from the case to wind. It is not signed anywhere but I novelty clock. Featuring man’s best friend looking up would guess it is German made. Very old, probably late at the clock. Backwind one day movement is running. 1800’s early 1900’s. $25-$50. Excellent dial and hands, beveled glass in a brass sash. Clock is 6 inches tall. $25-$50. 340. $10 Junghans, Germany, oddball alarm clock with two large silver bells 348. $21 on the base. A hammer descending from the bot- Desk clock with advertising on the dial, “Machinists tom of the clock strikes both bells. The movement Supply / Chicago”. The super little case is only 1.75 inch- is signed. If you wind the alarm spring all the way es tall, beveled glass, perfect dial and three original the bells will ring and ring and ring. Wood base with hands. Makers name not signed anywhere. One day wood bun feet, everything else is nickel or brass. It movement is running. $25-$50. is 8.5 inches high. $50-$100. 349. $21 341. $100 Metal clock in shape of a fish. Signed on the back, “France” signed on the milk glass globe with Roman cannot read. Dial signed only, “Made In U.S.A.”. clock dial. Brass base holding movement, pendulum, About 5 inches wide. One day movement is running. and winding key underneath. Pendulum swings under- $25-$50. neath and the movement is running. It is 7 inches tall, and in excellent original condition. Brass has not been 310. $21 polished, black hand pointer in place and is original. The Desk clock with advertising on top of the case, “Our base is signed, “Brevete / S.G.D.G. / M.S.”. I believe the Time Is Yours / Peterson Core Oil & Mfg. Co. / Chicago”. trademark is that of “Samuel Marti”. This is a very old Dial signed, “Made In U.S.A.”. Brass case is 3.5 inches and very rare clock that you rarely find in this condition. high, glass over the dial, original hands and brass dial $200-$300. ring. One day movement is running. $25-$50.

342. $21 311. $10 “New Haven / U.S.A. / Made By The New Haven Clock Co. Desk clock, bronze and onyx standing 8 inches high. Eagle on the

29 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures top, brass ornaments all the way around the case. dial is signed, hands are correct, and the heart/pendulum is moving. Removable back cover to access the movement that $75-$150. is signed with Junghans trademark. The porcelain dial is not signed, minute hand probably a replacement. 360. $1000 The 8 day movement is not running. $50-$100. Rare, miniature, “Dickory Dickory Dock Clock”, designed by Elmer Dungan, several years after the name of Dun- 312. $200 gan & Klump had disappeared from the Philadelphia busi- Junghans Diana swinger. Bowed glass over the porcelain ness directory. He designed it because his son Warren dial. Dial is signed with the “J”, Junghans trademark, and felt the Mouse Clock was suited for use as an advertising “Germany” on the bottom of the dial. The one day move- and sales promotion gift. Model V, only 15.5 inches high, ment is running. It is 13.5 inches tall. Statue and base are uses a round dial and the mouse rises slowly each sixty correct and in good condition. $250-$500. minute period and drops every hour. The case is made of oak and stained. Printed on the left front is “Dickory Dickory Dock, 313. $210 and on the right side, “The Mouse Ran Up The Clock”. The one day Gas night light clock. Milk glass dial is signed, movement by Sessions Clock Co. is similar to an alarm clock move- “Geo.W.Briggs & Co. / Pittsburg, PA.”. Perfect dial is ment. It is running and there is no strike. There is a complete paper 6.5 inches. Backwind movement is running. About label on the back. The only miniatures ever produced were a small as big as a size 18 watch movement. The gas flame test lot, made by the Sessions Clock Company to determine the was behind the dial and you could tell the time in the dark. $250- ultimate sales potential. The test lot failed and the project was $500. dropped before it ever got off the ground. It was by far the least expensive of the Dickory Dickory Dock Clocks to produce, and today 314. $100 it is the rarest. Reference: NAWCC Bulletin Supplement No. 4. We “Gravity / Ansonia / Made By The Ansonia Clock Co. N.Y. have only had one other and it sold for over $2500. $1500-$2500. U.S.A.”, signed on the excellent silver dial. The metal case is 10 inches tall. Hand set on the back, movement is running, 361. $1000 powered by its own weight pulling the clock down the iron Bradley & Hubbard, “Sambo”, ca 1860. Blinking eye rods. $100-$200. novelty clock with a 30 hour spring driven movement. The 16 inch high iron case is all original including the 311. $110 paint. The paint losses are minimal and considering its “One Hand Clock Co., Warren, PA., U.S.A.”, signed on age you might call it exceptional. The old dial has the 6.5 inch dial. It is near perfect except for some darkened but there is no fading of the black numerals stains on the dial. Movement is running. Clock is al- and time track. The time only movement winds on the most 9 inches tall. How often do you see the One Hand front between the 3 and 4, and is running. B&H used movements Clock? $150-$300. bought from Waterbury, Pomeroy, and other manufacturers. This collector serviced all his clock movements as he acquired the clocks, 316. $100 put them in good running condition, but rarely if ever wound them New Haven Clock Co. monkey on top of clock. Eyes and thereafter. You may find a more beautiful example, one that has jaw moves with the one day backwind movement tick- been restored, but you will not find one more original in this condi- ing. They are not moving as much as one would expect, tion. $1500-$2500. however as watched it for a while it seemed to be mov- ing better. I know these clock have not been wound in 362. $200 20-30 years. In a short time I already see movement is “Roasting Jack, Meat Jack, or Pot Turner”, all the same and better. Metal case is 10 inches high, paint is not the used in England as early as the 1400’s. The modern day greatest. Excellent beveled glass and dial. Dial signed roasting jack was invented by Simon Willard around 1784. He two places and hands are original. Movement is running. $150-$300. called it a “cooking jack”. He was granted exclusive rights for five years to make the jacks. They were of brass, which 317. $10 was scarce at that time. He had a working relationship with Globe Pendulum Clock, ca 1941. I have heard it called a Paul Revere to sell them. They continued to be made by th “baseball” clock, and a “world’s fair” clock, among other other companies well into the 18 century. The one we are selling is things. It is 9.5 inches tall, has the original paint. It is com- signed on the front just below the movement winding arbor, and it plete and running. Ehrhardt, Book 3, page 174. $25-$50. says, “John Linwood / Warranted”. It is signed on the bottom, “Warranted / 1”. It is clean and polished and has one dent. It is 14 318. $71 inches tall and functioning properly. We have sold a half dozen or so Waterbury Clock Co. miniature grandfather clock with over the years so they are not extremely rare, although I was sur- alarm. Very rare, plus it is metal and they are most always prised how many folks made them. What we sometimes fail to re- made of wood. Dial signed by Waterbury, cast 11 inch high member is how they cooked their food in the 1700’s, 1800’s, and case has figures and objects all over. The alarm bell is in the even up in the 1900’s. $300-$500. top of the clock over the one day movement and is visible from the back. It is running and will alarm on cue. 363. $100 $100-$200 Night light clock, ca 1800’s. No signature anywhere visible. 319. $71 Milk glass dial is perfect, nice cast brass front, cast iron “Kronheimer Co. Inc. N.Y.”, miniature grandfather clock with base, and a tin can holding the one day backwind move- a one day beating heart movement. The nice walnut case is ment. The clock is running. A candle sits between the 12.5 inches tall, with brass or brass colored dial and sash. The movement and the clock dial, illuminating it at night so

30 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures those with insomnia can tell the time. It is 7 inches high, 4.5 inches by 2.25 inches high. Inside the box is a battery holder and connector deep and 4.25 inches wide. I would guess it was made in Germany. wires to a light bulb that is behind the clock dial. $150-$300. Similar clocks had two dials or made to point to the ceiling at night. There is a glass over the dial. I did 364. $100 not test the clock with batteries but did wind the The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. hanging animal, “Cat”, ca 1937. movement. It has a plunger wire out the back for The 30 hour movement is running and the cat’s eyes you to turn the light on and off. The bottom board move and the tail swings as the clock runs. It is 7.5 inch- slides out to access the batteries. $150-$250. es high, black with red bow tie. Ly-American Clocks, Volume 3, page 241. $150-$250. 370. $100 Clock with light bulb to illuminate the clock dial at 361. $71 night. There is a switch to turn the bulb on or off. New Haven Clock Co. novelty clock. Cast brass case with fruit, The one day tin can movement is running. I cannot leaves and designs around the edges. The dial is made up of porce- tell how batteries are fixed in the box, you will have lain cartouche numerals and the hands are very unusual. Notice to figure that out. Like all the other night light cases how the case is signed on the back. Th3e brass the bottom board slides out to access the batteries. piece is 8.5 inches wide and 7 inches high. Easel This clock is 6 inches high and 4.5 inches wide. $100- stand in the back. Not only is the piece of brass $200. signed but so is the one day movement. This little clock has an alarm feature on the back but the 371. $110 hand to set the alarm is missing. Unusual clock. “Sentinel Night Light / Made By The British United Clock Co. / Bir- $75-$150. mingham, England”. A different example of a night light behind a clock dial. This one uses a candle rather than batter- 366. $25 ies. The one day time only movement is running. “Meiko”, Japanese swinging doll clock. An inexpen- There is a long shaft from the movement to the sive version of our swinging clocks. Top over the clock hands. The dial, front and back is milk glass. A movement has five pieces of glass and a complete flat glass covers the dial and hands. Nice cast front paper label. The movement I would assume is 30 around the dial, wood base underneath the dial and hour, and it is running. Silber dial with their trade- movement. It is 5 inches high and 5 inches wide. $150-$300. mark. It is almost 7 inches high and is all original. The age is unknown but I would assume post WWII. $25-$50. 372. $100 Clock with light bulb, almost identical to #370, except 367. $110 the glass over the dial is a large round glass, like a mag- Junghans/ Germany, swinging doll clock. Considera- nifying glass, that makes the numerals appear larger. bly upscale from the Japanese swinging doll clock The oak box and other parts are the same. Not signed above. This movement runs 8 days, the doll swings anywhere, but surely made in USA. Bottom board slides fast. The movement is wound from the right side of out to access the batteries. Movement is running, did the oak case. Bowed glass over the signed porcelain not insert batteries to test the light bulb. $100-$200. dial, replaced minute hand, and maybe a replaced back over the movement. The 12 inch high oak case 373. $10 has a good finish. It is a very strong running time only The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. novelty clock in the shape of movement. $150-$300. a fish. The metal case is 5.5 inches long. It has a back- wind one day movement that is running. Bowed 368. $1000 glass over the nice dial that is signed, “Made In USA”. $10-$25. Junghans, Germany, acrobat automaton in excellent condition, ca 1900. Rarely seen for sale anywhere we were fortunate to have two 374. $110 recently, May 2015 auction #252, and this example. The only signifi- E. N. Welch Mfg. Co. “Briggs Rotary” 30 hour novelty cant difference is the uniform worn by the acrobat. The oak case is timepiece, ca 1878. Not signed anywhere that I see. 15 inches tall, original and complete. The stage scene Dial is probably a replacement but everything else has original paint and the Junghans trademark “J” in including the thin glass dome appears to be original. the bottom right of the stage scene. The acrobat has Proper winding handle underneath and the move- good paint but is missing his foot and shoe. The sash ment is running. The wood base has not been cleaned has a flat glass over the dial and hands. The 30 hour or polished and should need only a light cleaning to movement is running and the acrobat goes thru his bring it back. The metal feet and other case parts are routine. A separate spring and lever activates the correct. It is 9 inches high. Ly-Welch, pages 68-75. $150-$300. acrobat. The nickel movement is clean and is signed. The winding key is in a slot on the hinged door. If you 371. $10 bid too low in the May auction, this one may be your last chance to Advertising desk clock. Cast metal case has this message around the own one of these rare automatons. $1000-$1500. bottom, “Phoenix Metal / National Lead Co.”. The dial is signed, “The Phelps & Bartholomew Co. Anso- 369. $110 nia, Conn. USA”. That company was in business 1881- Clock with a night light behind it. There are no makers marking on 1905. The small clock is 3.5 inches wide and 2 inches the box. We have had other similar clocks in auctions this year that tall. The one day movement is running. $10-$25. were made in the USA around 1910. The wood box is 6 inches wide

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376. $10 ment is running and there are lots of patent dates but no maker’s Rare lighter, signed, “Douglas Lighter”, ca 1926. An name. The wall plate looks to be new but the gas line running to the unusual functioning lighter. It scared the willys out of clock is old. $150-$300. me when I pushed the button to operate the lighter. It makes a loud noise. The silver colored case is 4 inches 383. $10 tall. The largest lighter I have seen. $10-$25. Miniature grandfather clock with a one day movement that is running. Very nice 12 inch high walnut case with brass fini- 377. $100 al, brass sash and dial ring, flat glass, and a very good dial “FMS” signed on the nickel plated one day time and alarm (music) and hands. Clock not signed anywhere. It is old, probably 75 movement in the unusual mantel clock. Made by to 100 years old. $75-$150. Frederich Mauthe, Schwennigen, hence “FMS”. Be- low the movement is the music comb. There are two 384. $71 winding arbors and of course two springs, one for Miniature grandfather clock with one day Beating Heart the time and one to play the music. The movement is movement, made by, “Kronheimer Co. Inc. N.Y.”. Walnut running and the music is playing. The oak case is 14 case is 12 inches high, wood finial tip broken off, case in need inches high, has some metal ornaments over the case of cleaning and polish. Brass sash, slightly bowed glass over top to bottom, some turnings and other nice case- the brass (or brass colored) dial. Dial is signed. The one day work. The music label is on the bottom. A very nice movement is running and the Beating Heart is moving. $75- clock. $100-$200. $150.

378. $100 381. $71 Fancy Beating Heart miniature dresser/desk clock. Back of the one “The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. Waterbury, Conn. U.S.A.”, minia- day movement is signed, “Metal Dore / Fab.Suisse / Lancel / Swiss ture grandfather clock, ca 1930. The two toned walnut case Made”. The movement is running and the Beating is 10 inches high, clean and original with some carving Heart in moving on the dial. It has a stand on the back. around the dial. One day movement is running. Flat glass in Pearl case is 2 inches wide and high. Dial is signed the brass sash, silver dial is signed, “Made In USA”. Origi- “Swiss”, super pair of hands, flat beveled glass and nally had a cover over the winding stems in back. very nice dial ring. Really a gorgeous clock. Probably $75-$150. did not come in the latching box originally, but I sup- pose it could have. $150-$300. 386. $10 “The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. Waterbury, Conn. U.S.A.”, minia- 379. $100 ture grandfather clock, ca 1930. The walnut case is 11 inch- Swiss miniature Beating Heart dresser/desk clock. Signed on the es tall, wood finial on top, and is a good similarity of the base, “Metal Dore / Ralco S.C. / Swiss”. The case original grandfather clocks. One day movement is running. and dial are fantastic, pearl I suppose with bronze $50-$100. bands and movement back. Dial is signed but I can- not read it. One day movement is running and Beat- 387. $1000 ing Heart is moving. Clock is 2.5 inches tall. I doubt “Bradley & Hubbard / Patent Applied For 1856 / PCF”, copied from if the clock came in the box, but suppose it could the base of this cast iron blinking eye clock named, have. $150-$300. “Continental”, which they made for the Waterbury Clock Co. ca 1857. The paint on this figure is original 380. $100 but much has worn off particularly on the upper half Miniature Beating Heart dresser/desk clock. Signed on of the figure. The base is so nice I must speculate that the base, “Metal Dore”. Dial is signed, “Lancel / Paris”. it was repainted. The figure is 16 inches tall, retains all Clock is almost identical to #379. It is 2.5 inches tall, pearl its original parts including the dial, hands, glass, bezel or looks a lot like pearl. Beautiful dial and hands. One and dial ring. The 30 hour time only movement is day movement is running and Beating Heart is moving. running and eyes are blinking, up and down. These The box and clock came together. The box is signed clocks, even when repainted and restored, or in bad inside same as the dial. $150-$300. condition not restored, have been selling upwards of $2500. Ly- Waterbury, page 78. $1500-$2000. 381. $10 Miniature Beating Heart dresser/desk clock. These little clocks are 388. $10 all very similar. This one has a pearl ring around the Ansonia Clock Co. “Gravity” clock. It is signed on the origi- dial, beveled glass is slightly bowed, great looking dial, nal dial in two places. The hands are correct but the sec- hands and numerals and is signed, “Swiss”. The back onds hand is missing, perhaps has dropped down in a of the movement is signed but I cannot make it out. It crack. The gravity movement is rot running. Unusual be- has an easel stand and is 2 inches tall. The one day cause 99% of these 2000 novelty clocks we are selling, movement is running and the Beating Heart is moving. were put in running condition. The metal case is 10 inches The clock is original to the nice box. $150-$300. tall. $50-$75.

382. $110 389. $10 Gas light clock. The milk glass dial is 5.5 inches, “The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Globe”, ca 1941. Excellent, it has the correct hands and there is a hairline near perfect metal case is 9.5 inches tall. By far the nic- across the dial from 11 to 5. The one day move- est example of the “Globe” I have seen. Back wind one

32 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures day movement is running. The 3 inch ball has original numbers, hands. Subjects are two Dutchmen drinking over a hands, and pendulum. $50-$100. key of been. Man on left lifts glass while clock is tick- ing. Strange, as nice as this clock is, and 99% of all 390. $100 the 2000 novelty clocks in this collection are running, French carriage clock, 8 day movement is time and strike. this one and #392, the two animated ones, are not Dial and movement are signed by the selling United States running. It has an easel stand. $50-$100. dealer, “J. E. Caldwell & Co.” Philadelphia. The movement is signed, “Made In France”. The brass case is 6 inches tall, 398. $21 has 5 beveled glasses, all are good. The porcelain dial and Miniature mystery Rotary or Tape Measure Clock, hands are very nice. The only problem I would have with ca 1941. I am not sure of the original color of the the clock is the brass needs to be polished. The 8 day movement is 1.75 inch high metal case unless it was black. It is running and striking. $100-$200. very dirty and worn, but of all things, it is running. One day movement of course, and winds under- 391. $100 neath. The miniatures are very rare. We see a great Ansonia Clock Co. carriage clock, “Astral”, ca 1904. many of the 3 inch Rotary’s. $25-$50. Unusual cast metal case finished in Antique Brass. It stands 5.75 inches tall, is complete, and has one 399. $21 beveled glass over the signed porcelain dial. There “The Parker & Whipple Co. U.S.A. Meriden, Conn.”, miniature clock, is a tiny corner chip on the glass. The hands, brass ca 1868. They made small clocks, mostly with alarms. The dial is bell underneath, and the metal back door are all signed, “A. E. Hotchkiss Patent”. The silver case is 3 original. The movement is signed, runni9ng and the inches tall and is missing the hands. There is a strange calendar is functioning. Ly-Ansonia #192. $200-$200. winding key on the back, cannot say it is, or is not, original. The case is all there, but missing some finish. 392. $21 The back and base are brass. The one day movement is The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. animated clock, “Shoe Shine not running. It must be a pretty rare little clock. $25- Boy”, ca 1934. It is 3.75 inches square, has a 30 hour $50. lever movement and an animated subject shining a girls shoes. Easel back good case and glass, signed 400. $10 dial with original hands, and a one day backwind Kal-Klok, clock, alarm, and calendar. Beige colored movement that is not running. Ly-American Clocks, metal case is 5 inches high, complete and original. A Volume 3, #701. $25-$50. small label on top has the name, “Kal-Klok Mfg. Under Design Pat.”, etc. I assume Kal stands for Calendar, 393. $21 and Klok stands for Clock. Winding keys for the alarm, Mystery Rotary or Tape Measure Clock, ca 1941. alarm set, time set, hand set, and speed up slow down Signed only, “Made In USA”. Green paint on the 3 knobs, are all on the top. The one we had in the May 2015 auction inch high case. One day movement is running. The #455, had a hinged cover on top. It was a later model. This early indicator points to the time on the tape measure. model never had a top. It tick but I would not call it running. $25-$50. $25-$50. 401. $21 394. $10 Four unusual desk calendars. There Waterbury Clock Co. carriage clock, “Conductor”, ca 1893. Brass was hardly anything mechanical this case is 4.5 inches tall, has a very nice 2 inch ivory dial gentleman did not collect. If you have with original hands and is signed. There are three good followed our January and April 2015 auctions you have noticed many beveled glasses and a hinged and latching back door. of the 2000 odd items we have offered. None of the four have a The one day time and strike movement is running and movement, they are all changed by hand each day. They are all the movement is signed. The silver bell is underneath. about 3 inches high. These were important in the days before elec- Ly-Waterbury #323. $50-$100. tricity, television, and all the devices at our fingertips today. $25.

391. $21 402. $100 Bird in Cage clock. Brass case is 5.5 inches high, good silver “The Standard Novelty Co. New York, Pat. April 6, dials, good bird. Movement in the base. It needs a tiny 1886”, printed underneath the clock. The clock is in winding key that I do not have so did not test for running. three pieces. The silver base contains the bottom wind $25-$50. one day movement and the black hand pointer. Note the pointer is loosely inserted in a pocket on the case 396. $10 side. That little piece of metal is also signed. Note Yale clock in wood case 5 inches tall. Nice clean case, there is a handle on the base for carrying the clock from room to dial, hands, glass, and silver pendulum. The backwind room. Sitting on the top of the silver base is a Kerosene lamp. You one day movement is running. Not signed but has light it at night to illuminate the milk glass globe to easily tell the several patent dates on the back. Complete with the time. The globe is dirty and has a dirty hairline that would easily original winding key and hand adjusting key. $50-$100. disappear if cleaned. The clock movement is running. I dare not test the lamp. $100-$200. 397. $10 The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. animated clock, “Happy Day”, 403. $100 ca 1934. The silver case is 3.75 inches square, very clean dial and E. N. Welch “Sharp Gothic, V.P.”, ca 1880. Better known today as a

33 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures steeple clock. Mahogany case is 20 inches tall, complete paper label on the back now covered with black paint with original door knob, excellent veneer all over, origi- or grime and unreadable. It has a very nice porcelain nal painted glass with little or no paint loss. Partial label dial with slow fast adjuster and pair of spade hands. on the back is very dark. Inside is the 8 day movement Hinged bezel with flat glass covers the dial. The one that is running and striking a silver bell. It also has an day brass movement is running. I thought at first it alarm movement and setting ring in the dial center. The was a “Tucker Bronze” clock but I understand they dial has some paint chips, and those are visible in the were 18 inches tall and did not have porcelain dials. picture. The hands are poor replacements, pendulum is Maker therefore is unknown as nothing is signed. $50-$100. a Welch product seen on many of their clocks that had various col- ored glass centers. The center is missing on this pendulum. Ly- 410. $110 Welch #1468. $100-$200. Ansonia Clock Co. Royal Bonn case, “LaScarpe”, ca 1914. We have had scores of Ansonia Royal Bonn’s 404. $21 come thru our auctions but don’t believe I have ever Sessions Clock Co. banjo with an 8 day lever movement. seen this model. The case is 11.25 inches tall and deco- Brass side rails, original glasses, metal eagle on top is not rated with pink, yellow, rose colored flowers and stable. Needs new screw or glue. Bowed glass over original greens and pinks on the case edges and sides. The signed dial. Partial label on the back. Not running. $25-$50. dial is a plastic replacement, hands appear to be correct, and there is a flat glass in the sash. The Royal Bonn insignia and model name 401. $21 “La Scarpe” were fired into the clay on the back of the case. It has E. Ingraham & Co. cottage clock, “Argand” model, ca 1880. 13 inch the original metal back, original pendulum bob and a winding key. wood case has several issues although is all there, ex- The 8 day movement is signed, running, and striking half hours on a cept for veneer chips, molding chips, paint loss, etc. gong. Ly-Ansonia #2504. $200-$300. Good label inside, original painted glass, original dial, one hand replaced. The movement is 8 day, striking an 411. $110 iron bell, has old pendulum bob and a key. This clock Ansonia Clock Co. porcelain case, model “Wire”, ca 1904. They made also has an alarm movement in the bottom that also a series of clocks with names beginning with “W”, must be 20 or strikes on the iron bell. Ly-Ingraham #885. $25-$50. more, all the same size and similar shapes. The name on the back was fired in the kiln so has always been there, but is not pictured in 406. $21 Ly-Ansonia. Not unusual for I have seen many clocks not pictured in E. Ingraham & Co. mantel clock, the model they called, clock catalogs. The case is 11 inches tall, primarily “Venetian No.3”. Apparently they made five sizes of this green tones with gold highlights and painted model, this clock being 15.5 inches high, the middle of the flowers front and sides. Beveled glass in the sash, five. The rosewood veneered case is not bad considering signed one piece porcelain dial with hairlines at it is almost 150 years old. I see a few tiny chips on the top the bottom, and replaced hands. No metal cover edge. It has an original painted glass, replaced paper dial, over the back. Signed 8 day movement is running excellent label inside, alarm movement, coil gong and an 8 day time and striking half hours on a coil gong. $150-$250. and striking movement that is running. Ly-Ingraham, page 265. $25- $50. 412. $400 Ansonia Clock Co. Royal Bon case, “La Cannes”, ca 1904. This model 407. $10 was attractively designed, using the lions head at Wm. L. Gilbert Co. mission clock, “San Jose”, ca 1913. the top and sea varmits down the sides. Brightly The 24.5 inch oak case has a “Flemish finish”, whatever painted flowers on the front and sides, gold high- that is. The case is clean, very nice, complete, and has lights, and primarily green finish overall with a tint brass hands, numerals, and pendulum bob. The 8 day of blue. The case is roughly 11.5 inches high and spring movement is running strong, and striking a Ca- wide. Beveled glass, two piece signed porcelain thedral gong on hours and half hours. On the back is a dial, correct hands, and nice open escapement in complete paper label. Ly-Gilbert #1270. $75-$150. the center, all are original and very nice. The metal back cover is missing. Royal Bonn insignia and clock name on the back. Inside is 408. $71 the signed 8 day movement that is running and striking half hours Ansonia Clock Co. enameled iron case mantel clock, “Montague”, ca and hours on the Cathedral gong. A very nice clock. Ly-Ansonia 1914. It has a good finish, no paint loss, all verde bronze ornaments #2505. $500-$750. intact, has a flat beveled glass in the brass sash, good signed porce- lain dial ring and metal inner dial, and correct hands. The opening in 413. $21 back is covered with the original metal door. Inside Seth Thomas hanging clock, “Willow”, ca 1928. ST is a signed 8 day movement, running and striking described it as a “Round white enamel case with half hours and hours on a Cathedral gong. The authentic Old English designs”. It looks like Oriental case is about 12 inches high and 13 inches wide. designs to me and is identical to the “Willow” clock Included is a winding key and the correct pendu- pictured in Ly-Seth Thomas #1122. Case is worn and lum bob. Overall in very good condition. Ly- has many small paint chips. It has an 8 day pendulum Ansonia #1075. $100-$200. movement, time only, and is running. $25-$50.

409. $10 414. $100 Metal shelf clock. Appears to be brass/bronze covered with black Hanging metal cased clock with porcelain cartouche numerals on a paint. Stands about 12 inches tall and is complete. Appears to be a brass dial. The red part of the case is a thin metal and there are

34 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures heavy cast metal ornaments all around. It is not visibly modern looking machine than the others and is extremely heavy to signed and I did not disassemble to look at the move- only be about 8 inches square. The paint and finish is like new. The ment. I assume it to be German. The movement is dou- machine is operating and pay off. $100-$200. ble wind, time only, and running. It surely runs 8 day, maybe 15, I did not test for that. The case is about 18 420. $300 inches by 12 inches, complete and original. It is dirty and Arcade Kicker and Catcher Football Game. This is a nothing has been cleaned or polished. $150-$300. ca 1930’s game behind a glass front panel, with a colorful kicker and catcher each wearing vintage 411. $200 1930’s football attire. The machine takes dimes. In- “3 JACKS” arcade casino gambling machine. The case is made of sert a dime and metal pin balls are released to the cast aluminum and oak and probably dates about 1950-1970, alt- kicker who punts them one by one to the catcher. hough some date back to 1910. I checked this machine on the inter- Before the ball gets to the catcher it passes thru net and see that it may have been made by “Charles Fey & Sons”, or many metal pegs. The machine is in good working “Fields”. I cannot find a makers name on the machine anywhere order. It is 19 inches high. The case and figures inside the case have although Fey and Fields make identical ma- good paint. Our research on internet sales of this exact item re- chines. The three trays near the bottom would vealed sales from $500 to near $1000. Some machines require a normally be full of dimes. You insert a dime on penny, this one requires a dime to play. Key locking back door, with the side, turn the handle slowly and a spring key, to access the movement and dimes. $500-$1000. throws the dime up and it descends between metal pins until it hopefully goes into one of 421. $100 the three slots. I assume you have to get a coin Antique Select-O candy/gum vending machine. Probably in all 3 slots (3 Jacks) before you win some- made in the 1940’s or 1950’s. Takes one penny to get you thing, more dimes. If it misses one of the 3 some candy. Turn the knob on top to select one of 13 can- slots it falls to the bottom. The machine is in dy or gum choices. Made by “Northwestern / Morris, Illi- excellent condition. It is 18 inches high and 13 inches wide at the nois”. Key locking door in front to access coins and replen- base. Sales on EBay and auctions appear to be in the $300-$500 ish the candy. Machine is 20 inches tall. $100-$200. range. 422. $100 416 $100 Antique candy/nut dispensing machine. This machine Old gumball machine, takes either 1c or 5c coin. 1c gets presently has cashews under the glass dome. It is a 1c you one gumball, 5c gets you five. It has a full label but machine. I put my penny in and got about 4 nuts. I does not disclose a maker per se, but says, would think it could be adjusted to regulate the “Northwestern Merchandiser”. The operating parts are amount of candy/gumball/peanuts it disperses. The a little rusty but are working and dispensing gumballs. machine is 16 inches tall, clean with good paint, and There are two locks and two keys. It has a tiny padlock complete. Key and lock on the front to access the holding the metal lid to the glass top. Keeps little hands pennies and replenish the goodies. $100-$200. out of the gumballs. It has another lock on the base al- lowing you to access the coins. It is 16 inches tall. If you buy it I rec- 423. $100 ommend you get a fresh supply of gumballs. $100-$200. Vintage Gumball/Peanut machine, by Reavis, ca 1950’s. This is a 1c machine that is operating properly. Glass jar 417. $100 is good, metal top and base slightly worn. Key lock on Old 1c Gumball machine. It has marbles in the jar at present. A label top but no key. No access to the coins except from the on the glass jar says it was made in Wichita Falls, Texas, top down. It is 14 inches high. $100-$200. but the makers name is obliterated. A name is formed in the glass but I cannot read it. The machine is 14 inches 424. $100 high. The metal lid on top has a lock and key. There Vintage Gumball/Peanut machine, very simi- should be a lock on the base to protect the pennies but lar to #423 but in better condition. This machine is 16 the lock is missing. Both the glass jar and the metal base inches tall, has good paint on the metal and the glass is have a star imprinted. The condition of the case and jar is perfect. Key lock on the top, but no key. It is a 1c ma- good and it is operating properly. $100-$200. chine and operating properly. $100-$200.

418. $100 421. $100 Toy slot machine by “Nevada – Bonanza Bank”. You Vintage slot machine that dispenses gumballs. Metal can play for fun, no coins, or play with coins and get case is 9” wide and 10.5” high. I don’t know if a gum- them back if you wish. The machine takes 1c, 5c, 10c, ball is dispensed on every pull or when a certain and 25c coins. Evidently you can win a jackpot ? if it number of points are accumulated. Key lock on the comes up with 7777 or 4 bars. The cast metal machine back to access gumballs and coins, but no key. $100- is 11.5 inches high and is complete and operating. $200. There is no lock on this machine. $100-$200. 426. $21 419. $100 Seiko / Sonola Transistor clock with calendar, powered by Toy 5c slot machine. The only signature or marking is, two size D batteries. Wood case is 17 inches tall, has two “PLUS”. I pulled the guts out of the machine and there glasses in front door, day and date calendar below the is nothing showing except patent dates. This is a more metal dial. Japanese label of instructions in the bottom of

35 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures the case, in Japanese. Good luck. I notice the collector paid $60 for this clock. $25-$50. 431. $100 French Globe clock with a rotary pendulum movement in the base. 427. $21 The globe and other top parts are just for looks. The English hotel clock, maybe. Coin slot on the top of the French, Swiss, and the Germans made many types of oak case is marked, “Two Florins Weekly”. The silver globe clocks, some burning candles, some with batteries dial ring is signed, “England”. Case is 11” by 7.5”, com- and bulbs. This movement is wound by turning the very plete and very nice. I am not attuned to why the coin bottom of the base. The clock is signed under the globe, slot unless the clock will not run unless you put some “F ot B te”. Between F ot and B te is an anchor, a star, and “florins” in it. I wound the movement and it is running, so why the other things. The European Trademark Index book only coin slot? $25-$50. calls it a French clock, maker unknown. It is 9.5 inches tall and the metal is brass. The movement is dry and acts like 428. $21 it wants to run. I oiled the rotary bar and after a couple of “DMCo” metal clock with coin slot, safety deposit, hours it got better. It should run if you would oil the rest bell, battery holder for light bulb. Silver case is 13 of the movement. This collector had 99.9% of his 2000 inches wide and 8.5 inches high. Not running. $25- clock collection in running condition, but with 30-40 years sitting on $50. the shelf many have dried out. $200-$300.

429. $10 436. $71 Spartus electric clock and horse. Good electric Waterbury Clock Co. carriage clock, “Major”, patented in the 1870’s. cord, clock is complete, I can feel the electric in the The cast metal case is 5 inches tall, and according to movement but the hands are not turning? It is 18 Waterbury has a “Rich Roman Gold Plated” finish. inches wide, 11 inches high. $10-$25. Now with some age it has darkened but the finish is pretty well intact. The one day movement is time and 430. $21 alarm. Alarm set ring is on the back of the movement Ansonia Clock Co. musical carriage alarm clock. Music with winding keys. Alarm bell is underneath the case. plays on cue but four teeth on the music box are miss- It is running and alarming properly. Ly-Waterbury ing. Clock is not running and is missing the set knobs #304. $100-$200. for hands and the alarm. The brass case is 8 inches tall. $25-$50. 437. $10 German novelty clock. Metal Owl with moving eyes on 431. $10 the front of the wood case. Movement winds on the Calendar clock, ca 1870’s, or at least marked as patented 1877-1878. I back with a winding key. Beveled glass over the dial see no makers name on the case or dial. I turned the and hands. The clock overall is in very nice condition hands until the calendar changed. The movement is but like a few others in this collection the movement running, as are 99% of all the clocks in the huge collec- he had running sat on the shelf for 30 or more years tion. The brass case is 5.5 inches tall, originally nickel and the oil has dried. The clock is 6.5 inches tall. $50- plated on brass, now worn to half and half. The dial is $100. too nice to be original but where would you buy one like this. $50-$100. 438. $21 “Jennings Bros. Bridgeport, Conn. USA” signed on the 432. $21 clock back. Initials and Made In USA on the dial. The one Waterbury Clock Co. dresser/desk clock in a 5.5 inch day movement is running. Beveled glass over the dial. cast brass case. The brass has not been cleaned Three hands and the dial are original. The 4 inch metal therefore dirty and tarnished. Porcelain dial signed case has a good finish, just slightly tarnished. $25-$50. two places, three original hands, all clean and nice. The backwind movement is time only, running, and I 439. $21 assume runs only one day. Would be a very nice Jennings Bros. novelty desk clock. Metal case is 7 inches clock if cleaned. $25-$50. high, finish is gone, now base metal. Backwind one day movement is running, has all its knobs and keys. Flat glass, 433. $21 porcelain dial ring, inner dial, pair of hands, all are original General Electric X-Ray Corp. “Internal Timer”, in a case and nice. $25-$50. resembling alarm clock case. Note the dial is a 10 mi- nute dial. You set the dial for number of minutes you 440. $21 want before the alarm sounds. Note the silver handle New Haven Clock Co. novelty case with a decent finish. sticking up on the back. Pull it down to the side. When Beveled glass over the porcelain dial. It is signed two the time is up the handle moves back to the top as the places and the hands are original. One day backwind alarm sounds. Not running. $25-$50. movement is running. $25-$50.

434. $21 441. $21 Unsigned metal novelty clock. Backwind one day move- New Haven Clock Co. novelty clock. Metal case is 7.5 inches ment is running. Porcelain dial, three correct hands, and high with a decent original finish, just dirty. The backwind nice beveled glass, are all original. Good finish on the 9 one day movement is running and has its knobs and keys. inch high case. No damage, only slight wear. $25-$50. Beveled glass over the dial, brass inner dial ornament and

36 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures original hands. $25-$50. ca 1875. The case makes a good appearance, has a good color and if not for the finial tips broken off an 442. $21 unsophisticated collector might say, that is a good The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Jug Clock”. The porcelain jug is looking clock. Evidently all the veneer was removed almost 7 inches high and in good original condition. The and a nice finish was applied. The case now is 30.5 backwind one day movement is running. Flat glass over inches tall. If you buy the clock and remind me I will the signed dial. Hands are original. $25-$50. enclose a new set of finials but you will have to stain them to match the case. The Fashion clocks were 443. $10 made by Seth Thomas at their Conn. factory and trans- Brass pocket watch stand with a movable easel stand on ported to St. Louis. There is a complete label on the door indicating the back. The case metal has numbers, “24 / 35”, front the clock was sold to a customer in 1875. The clock came to me with- and back. The watch displayed is junk, sorry. The stand is out a pendulum but I have enclosed a new one. You cannot see the 5.5 inches high. $50-$100. pendulum so it does not matter that much. The 8 day movement is running and striking the bell on the hours. Ly-Calendar Clocks, page 444. $10 283. $250-$500. New Haven Clock Co. novelty clock. Porcelain dial is signed two places and it is covered with a good beveled glass. 449. $300 Backwind one day movement is running. The metal case is Seth Thomas, Plymouth, Connecticut, 30 hour time 10.5 inches tall. The original finish is tarnished and showing and strike weight wood movement clock, ca 1830. wear in places where handled. $50-$100. Stencils on the half columns and the splat are origi- nal and very nice. Both glasses are original and held 441. $10 with the old putty and the painted tablet is original “The Plato Clock”, ca 1909. They made this novelty clock and very nice with minor loss. Label inside the case is in different styles. I believe the cast case was their top of near perfect and the wood dial is excellent. Writing th the line. With dome in place it is 7 inches tall. The case is on the back of the dial says, “Joseph Short / Feb 20 signed underneath where you also wind and set the 1837”. The back of the dial is so clean you would hands. The only negative is a finger on the lower hand, think it was new. The paw feet, back feet, iron weights, brass pen- the hand that points to the days of the month. The metal dulum, and the hands, all look to be period and probably original to under the glass has a good finish where the metal at the this case. The door has a working key lock with key, and an ivory bottom shows tarnish and wear. The movement is run- escutcheon. The mahogany veneer on the 29 inch high case is near ning. $50-$100. perfect and has no chips or visible repairs. This clock is as nice as we have sold. Ly-Seth Thomas, pages 518-520. $500-$750. 446. $710 Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. Winsted, Conn. “Oriental”, 410. $310 ca 1901. A few years ago this model would have sold Seth Thomas “Chime Clock No.14”, ca 1911. This is a for $2500-$3500. I could tell you why they sell for five bell model in a 14 inch high mahogany case. The 33% as much but you wouldn’t want to read it. This case has small chips that would cover over with is a nice clock but not perfect. I suspect it is all origi- some cleaning and polish. Bowed glass over the 6 nal except the dial paper may be replaced. The 27 inch etched silvered dial. As is so typical of the Sono- inch high oak case is complete and original. The ra Chime silver dials it has fingernail or key scratches label is excellent, the pendulum bob and gong are and has never been cleaned. The dial is signed, “Seth correct, and the 8 day movement is signed, running, Thomas / Sonora Chime / Made by Seth Thomas In USA”. The full and striking the gong half hours and hours. The glass is original and size back door has a round opening covered by cloth and perforated like all the glasses used in this model birds are featured. Unlike most brass. The Sonora Chime movement is marked, “90B”, and the 8 calendar clocks the day, month, and date are displayed digitally day running movement marked, “89 O”. The movements are per- below the dial. Ly-Gilbert #165. $1000-$1500. forming properly. Ly-Seth Thomas #405A. $400-$600.

447. $300 411. $71 Waterbury Clock Co. “Calendar No.43”, ca 1912. I have “Ansonia Brass and Copper Company, Ansonia, Conn.”, spent far too much time analyzing this clock trying to ca 1874. This model is named simply, “Rose & Gilt”. The figure if any of the top is new. My conclusion is, if any 13 inch high rosewood case is clean and original. The is redone they copied the original exactly except for dial is new and the tablet is either new or rebacked the very top leaf. If it was remade then the 2-3 inches with black paint. The running movement is 8 day and below the leaf may be remade. If they made most of it strikes on an iron bell. This clock also has an alarm and near perfect why not the leaf on top. I really cannot bell below the dial. Inside also is a complete paper label and old tell for sure so I lowered the minimum. There are nice brass bob. The movements are running and striking. Ly-Ansonia complete labels on the back, good case most likely #1695. $100-$200. cleaned some, and a good door glass. The dials have only light wear and the hands appear to be correct. The movement is 8 day time 412. $71 and strike, spring driven. The oak case is 29 inches tall. Ly- Seth Thomas Cabinet clock, “Galway”, ca 1915. Ma- Waterbury #238. $400-$600. hogany case is 10.5 inches high with a dull rubbed finish (their words). The movement is running, signed, 448. $200 and runs 15 days, striking on a Cathedral bell. The Southern Calendar Clock Co. Saint Louis, Missouri, “Fashion No.2”, porcelain dial is 4 inches, signed and near perfect.

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Hands and imitation mercury pendulum are original. The door co- is a small tip missing on the left side. The bowed glass in the sash is vers the entire front, is hinged and has a knob. Ly-Seth Thomas held with original putty, dial is a paper replacement, and the hands #1629. $100-$200. are always an unknown. The wood case back has been repainted as has the metal back parts. The Seth Thomas movement is signed, 413. $10 running, and has an old pendulum bob. I suspect the round ST Ansonia Clock Co. porcelain clock, “La Salle”, ca 1904. movement, No. 120F, is not original to this case. It has a strike ham- The 10.5 inch porcelain case is cream colored with gold mer and of course a strike spring, but no bell or gong. $75-$150. decorations front and sides. A very good looking small clock as their porcelain clocks go. I see one break and 419. $100 glue repair on the top, satisfactorily done. The one Waterbury Clock Co. crystal regulator, “Havre”, ca piece porcelain dial is signed, has damage on the dial 1903. The brass case is 9.25 inches high and retaining edge in the 9 to11 area, and has original hands. Beveled most of the original finish. It features a ripple or bead- glass in the brass sash, and hinged metal back cover. The 8 day ing around the four beveled glasses. Good beveled movement is signed, running, and striking half hours on a gong. Ly- glasses all around but there is one corner nick on a side Ansonia #2525. $75-$150. glass. I like the sunburst pendulum but cannot swear it is original to this clock. They generally came with imita- 414. $21 tion mercury pendulums. The 8 day movement is signed, running, The Western Clock Mfg. Co. black onyx clock. In- and striking half hours on a hanging gong. There is a bronze sash scribed on the front base is large letters, “E. Z.”. around the porcelain dial ring and fancy gilt center. The hands are Backwind one day movement is running. Dial is original. The dial ring has damage around both winding arbors. Ly- signed, hands are original, glass is beveled. There is Waterbury #417. $100-$200. repaired break on the back of one column. For the money that should not be a detriment to buying. 460. $100 $25-$50. Ansonia Clock Co. metal mantel clock, “Fleur De Lys and No.1175”, sometimes with different base the statue is called, 411. $800 “Rose”. Included is a pair of matching Candelabra, Bradley & Hubbard, iron case clock, “John Bull”, ca 1860. The clock “No. 1177”. The Candelabras, statue, and base, all was an early and very rare moving eye novelty clock. The movement use roses as the subject. The statue and base are is signed, “C Jerome”, and is a 30 hour time only, and 24.5 inches tall and the Candelabras are 15.75 inch- blinking and running at least a day. The paint on the es tall. All pieces have a new finish. It appears the old clock has some original and some poorly touched original finish was gold gilt. It has a beveled glass, up. When I took the clock from the home I thought it one piece porcelain dial that is signed, and a pair of original hands. was a reproduction. This is perhaps their most rare On the back is a hinged metal door covering the movement open- model and usually sells near $2000 if in decent condi- ing. The round 8 day movement is signed, running, and striking a tion. the dial is a replacement but otherwise all origi- gong on half hours. Ly-Ansonia #1506 and 1508. $500-$750. nal. The old glass is held in place with the original put- ty. This model is 16 inches high. $1000-$1500. 461. $210 Three piece set, clock and pair of urns, ca 1890. The 8 day move- 416. $110 ment is a typical round French movement with bell “One Hand Clock Co., Warren, PA., U.S.A.”, ca 1920- attached. It is running and striking and has a cor- 1930. Reported to have made these rare clocks with 3 rect original pendulum for that type movement. dial sizes, 9”, 10”, 12”. This dial is 9 inches but the total The clock is 19.5 inches tall and the urns are 18 height of base and dial is 12 inches. The case is copper inches tall. All 3 pieces are complete with their color, has never had a gilt finish. The movements were attached cast brass parts and there are no breaks made by Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. $150-$300. in the porcelain but there are some faint hairlines. There are no markings on the pieces except a factory/kiln numbers on the bases. 417. $100 The movement has a serial number but no makers name and there is Seth Thomas gallery made for a special purpose. Sorry, none on the dial. The scenes on the porcelain are more English than I am unable to explain what it was used for. The dial German or French. $250-$500. has a metal tag that says, “Johnson Service Company”. The dial and dial pan are original. The double wind 462. $21 movement is signed two places by Seth Thomas and it Electric novelty clock featuring trotting horse, is running strong. The silver dial in the center is marked for 24 hours. driver and buggy. The clock is running. The metal I just noticed at the bottom of the movement are connectors for case is 21 inches long and 11.5 inches high. There is two wires, (wires were cut) and those wires would have gone thru a very good black finish on the metal. $25-$50. two holes in the bottom of the walnut case. IF the case once had veneer, it is no longer there. The case is 10.5 inches the dial is 7 inch- 463. $21 es. There are no hands but I am not sure there were supposed to “DMCo”, metal clock with coin bank, safety depos- be. $100-$200. it box, light bulb, battery holder, and numerous other things. The metal case is 13 inches wide and 418. $10 8 inches high, dirty but silver finish is pretty good. Iron Front clock with an 8 day Seth Thomas movement. Not running. $25-$50. 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464. $110 dog is not original but the gold color on the base appears to be. The Ansonia Clock Co. novelty clock, “Navy”, ca 1901. Decorat- dog is in two pieces and held below the ears with screws. The eyes, ed with Navy items, anchor, ropes, oars, ships wheel, har- bowed glass, brass sash, are all original. The dial is a replacement. poon, etc. The clock is signed, back wind, and is not run- $500-$1000. ning. The dial and hands are perfect. We sold one in our October 2014 auction and at this writing had one in our 470. $21 May 2015 auction that sold for $390. This piece is 12.5 inch- Seth Thomas desk clock with appreciation plaque from es tall, clean and complete except the flag is missing on the President of GMAC. Remember them? The dark top. It books for $1000 in the latest price guide and this may be only walnut case is about 7 inches high 7.5 inches wide. the 3rd one we have seen. Ly-Ansonia, page 531. $150-$300. Backwind movement is running. Bowed glass, clean signed dial, and original hands. $25-$50. 461. $10 Lanshire electric novelty clock. A really neat clock. If 471. $10 it were back wind I would keep it. It is running, has a New Haven small wall hanging clock. Painted metal case good cord, the kind of movement that you have to is 8 inches high. Bowed glass over the signed dial and a twirl a little know on the back to get it running. Not ring of pearls around the dial. The back wind one day self-starting in other words. It is 7.5 inches high and 8 movement is running. $10-$25. inches wide. $50-$100. 472. $10 466. $1000 Coca Cola wall hanging quartz clock. Takes two AA batter- German globe clock. Signed, “Made In Germany / Ges. ies. Clock made for the Coca Cola Company, in China. The Geschutzt / Registered / Depose”. The one day time plastic case is 9.5 inches from the top to bottom of Coke only movement winds in front. It is running briskly and bottle. $10-$25. turning the globe I suppose as it turns in real time. The case and latitude longitude markers are silver in color, 473. $10 now tarnished and mostly showing brass. The globe New Haven fancy desk/mantel clock. It is very ornately stands 15 inches high. The brass dial is very nice and decorated and not a bad looking clock. The one day clean. The clock is all original and in nice condition. I backwind movement is running and is mounted on a cannot determine the age of the piece but the countries on the piece of glass that is mounted to the metal base. The 4 globe go back before WWII. We had a globe clock by this same mak- glass columns are special, the top and base have etched er in our May 2015 auction, #213. That clock base, dial, etc. were designs on both sides. Flat glass over the signed dial. different but the globe looks the same. $1000-$1500. The case is 8.5 inches high. $50-$100.

467. $210 474. $10 Seth Thomas crystal regulator, “Empire No.13”, ca Ansonia Clock Co. “Carriage Extra”, ca 1904. One day movement 1907. The 11.5 inch high case has a very nice original with half hour strike and alarm. The 8 inch high case is gold finish. The case has four beveled plate glasses and finished in antique brass, is complete and in very nice both side glasses have corner chips. There is a signed condition. The signed dial is clean considering its age and one piece porcelain dial, and original hands. The 8 day hands are correct. Hinged back door and winding key in movement is signed, running, and striking half hours its holder on the back of the signed movement. It is run- and hours on a Cathedral bell. This is the same model ning, striking on a bell underneath the case, and alarms ST used for the clocks with a lion on top. Sometimes they placed a on cue. Ly-Ansonia #194. $100-$200. dog and wild boar on top. A nice example and all original. Ly-Seth Thomas #734. Books for $650. $300-$500. 471. $10 Bird Cage clock made in “Occupied Japan”, ca 1950’s. 468. $100 Bottom wind one day movement is running, bird is mov- Ansonia Clock Co. Bobbing Doll clock, “Jumper No.1”, ca ing, and the clock is indicating the correct time. The 1894. It has a time only 30 hour movement supported by base is onyx the cage holder and cage base is silver, and one pole. The Jumper No. 2 has two poles supporting the the bird cage wire is copper colored. The clock is 8.5 movement. The base, pole, and tin can containing the inches high. $50-$100. movement are nickel plated with a goodly amount of oxidation. The movement runs by the action of the ceram- 476. $21 ic doll bobbing up and down in the same manner as a Carriage clock with alarm and “Call Bell” push button on pendulum would. The doll is a replacement and looks very top. Push the button and the bell rings as long as you similar to the originals. The original paper dial is signed and dark- hold it down. Brass case is 5.5 inches high, has beveled ened over time, but still very legible. Was running when I brought it glass in front , oval glasses on the sides, and wind and home, now is failing to run. Been on the shelf 30 years, undoubtedly set buttons on the back. The movement is running, needs oiling. Ly-Ansonia #109. $500-$1000. there is a strike-silent switch on the top, and the brass bell is underneath. Base is copper, no finish, the rest of 469. $100 the case has a brass finish, no wear. Not visible signed. The dial is “Bradley & Hubbard / Pat nt / Ap Lied / For 1857 / Pcf”, signed, “Trade (S in circle) Mark”. $25-$50. signed underneath the base of this rare iron blinking eye clock. The one day movement is running and the eyes are blinking up and down. I would imagine the paint on the

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477. $10 and dial are signed and it is doing what it was intended to Waterbury Clock Co. novelty clock, “Surprise”, ca 1914. do. $5-$10. Yes, even I was surprised. I did not notice a Cupid was missing on the right side until I looked it up in Ly- 486. $21 Waterbury #1843. The clock is about 8 inches tall and is Metal case novelty clock has good finish and stands fairly clean but shows age and grime. Dial is signed as is only 5.5 inches high. Complete and original but has no the back of the movement case. The one day movement makers name visible. One day backwind movement is is running. The dial, hands, and bowed glass are nice. $10-$25. running. Porcelain dial ring, brass inner dial, and bowed glass. $25-$50. 478. $10 Waterbury Clock Co. miniature novelty dresser clock. All the Lux and Keebler clocks are referenced in Ly-American Clocks, The brass case is about 3 inches high and retains most Volume 3. There are pictures, descriptions, and estimated prices. of the original finish. Backwind 30 hour movement is signed and running. The porcelain dial has a miniscule 487. $21 edge chip and hairline. $10-$25. Lux Clock Co. Rotary Calendar Alarm, or Kal-Klok, clock, alarm, and calendar. It is not signed anywhere, but I 479. $1 have had one in my collection since 1970 that has a la- New Haven miniature alarm clock. Dial is signed, no bel. Mine never had a cover on top but otherwise is alarm hand, backwind on day movement is not running. almost identical. Kal-Klop I assume is a synonym for The plastic case is 3.5 inches high. $5-$10. Calendar and Clock. Case is pot metal covered with bronze gilt origi- nally, and stands 5.5 inches high. With the hinged top this one is 480. $10 more attractive than mine. The 80 hour movement is not running. Tezuka Clock Co. blinking eye clock, “Poppo”, ca 1950’s. $50-$100. Made in Occupied Japan this has been a popular clock since first introduced into the USA. The wood case is 6 488. $21 inches high and in very good condition. Signed dial, Lux Clock Co. “Dutch Cottage”. Syroco white case with red original hands, flat glass, and back wind one day move- bird and chimney and green roof. Red bird bobs in and out ment. It is running and eyes are moving left to right. of window. The case is 7 inches tall. It is running. $25-$50. $50-$100. 489. $21 481. $1 Lux Clock Co. “Cuckoo Style” pendulette, ca 1937. It is 7.5 Paper clip clock. One day back wind clock, not run- inches high, red bird bobs in and out of window when ning. Bowed glass over paper dial signed only “Made clock is in operation. 30 hour Lux Keywind movement is in USA”. Holds papers tight in the days of big ceiling running but pendulum is slightly bent. $25-$50. fans before air conditioning. Metal case is 6 inches by 3 inches. $5-$10. 490. $21 Lux Clock Co. “Old Cuckoo Style”, ca 1937. Keywind move- 482. $100 ment is running and is fitted with ornamental chains and The Swiss made “Mikiphone” is the smallest talking weights. Made of synthetic wood, has minor edge nicks. machine ever made, folded up to the size of a large Bird bobs in and out of window. The case is 7.25 inches pocket watch. Silver case is 4.5 inches in diameter and high. $25-$50. 2 inches deep. Inscribed on the outside of the case is, “Mikiphone / Pocket Phonograph / System Vadasz / 491. $21 Patented In All Countries”. Patented in 1924 by the Lux Clock Co. “Scott Dog, or Playful Scotty”, ca 1937. Vadasz brothers. It plays records up to 10 inches. Google Mikiphone Features three Scotty dogs. The one on top rocks back and you can learn all about it and how to assemble it. Some sales at and forth as clock operates. The movement is running, auction have been as high as $750, and as low as $300. $100-$300. and the clock is original and complete, but shows con- siderable wear. $25-$50. 483. $10 Jennings Brothers Mfg. metal novelty clock. The metal 492. $21 case is 9 inches tall, dusty dirty with decent finish remain- Lux Clock Co. “Love Birds”, ca 1936. The blue birds rock ing. Backwind one day movement is signed and running. up and down, touching beaks when the clock is in mo- It has a porcelain dial, hands suspect. I believe it originally tion. Case is 5 inches high. It is running. $25-$50. had a statue on the left side as well. $10-$50. 493. $21 484. $21 Lux Clock Co. “Bluebird with Three Flowers”, ca 1935. German ? moving eye clock. This one is different in that Case is 6 inches high and has good colors on the flowers both eyes rotate to the right as the movement ticks. The and bird. The mother bird swings back and forth feeding nice wood case is 8 inches tall, complete and in good con- her nest of birds when the pendulum swings. The move- dition. The eyes are glass or plastic, not sure. One day ment is running. $25-$50. movement is running and eyes are turning. $25-$50. 494. $21 481. $1 Lux Clock Co. “Swing Bird”, ca 1930. Animated bird Seth Thomas Metronome, missing base underneath. Movement swinging to and fro, feeding its young when the clock is

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491. $10 104. $10 Lux Clock Co. “Bulldog”, ca 1930. This model came with Swiss nightstand 8 day alarm clock with calendar. In kittens on a teeter totter or with a bone that rocks, just excellent condition and is running. It is 3 inches tall, below the number 6. Whatever was there is missing, the backwind and set. $10-$25. clock is not running, nor does it have a pendulum bob. The case is 7 inches high and shows wear. $10-$25. 101. $21 The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Heartbeat” novelty clock, ca 496. $21 1930’s. The dial is signed and in perfect condition. The Lux Clock Co. “Bulldog, ca 1930. Same as #495 except one day backwind movement is running and heart is this case is very nice. It also is missing whatever was beating. Celluloid case is 4.5 inches wide and 3 inches below the number 6. The movement is running, case is high and has an easel back. $25-$50. complete and stands 7 inches tall. $25-$50. 106. $21 497. $21 The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Heartbeat” novelty clock, ca Lux Clock Co. “Bluebird with Six Logs”, ca 1935. Nice case 1930’s. The dial is signed and in excellent condition. is 6 inches high, complete and original but missing the Backwind one day movement is running and the heart pendulum bob. Mother bluebird swings back and forth is beating. The celluloid case is 3.5 inches wide and tall feeding her nest of birds. It is running. $25-$50. and has an easel back. $25-$50.

498. $21 107. $21 Lux Clock Co. “Bluebird with Three Flowers”, ca 1935. Heartbeat clock, Made in France by Lancel. A very at- The case is 6 inches high and has colors on the flowers tractive case with jewels and special sash surrounding and bird, but not as pronounced as on #493. The moth- the bowed and beveled glass. The dial is also very spe- er bird swings back and forth feeding her nest of birds cial. The case is 3 inches in diameter with easel stand. when the pendulum swings. The movement is running. Backwind movement is running and heart is beating, Has no pendulum bob. $25-$50. much faster than the Lux Heartbeats. $25-$50.

499. $10 108. $10 Lux Clock Co. “Bluebird with Three Flowers”, ca 1935. Waterbury Clock Co. carriage clock, “Meteor”, ca 1906. The bluebird is missing, otherwise the clock is complete Gold plated case is 4.25 inches tall and retains a goodly and is running. Mother bluebird, if there, would swing amount of the original finish. The backwind movement back and forth feeding her nest of birds. $10-$25. runs one day and strikes a bell underneath the case on half hours and hours. There are 3 beveled glasses and all 100. $21 have corner chips. Excellent signed ivory dial. Ly- Waterbury #321. $50-$100. Lux Clock Co. “Love Birds”, ca 1936. The blue birds rock up and down, touching beaks when the clock is in mo- 109. $10 tion. The case is 5 inches high. It is running. $25-$50. German ? alarm clock. Backwind movement is running. Is probably 30 hour runner. Never a cover over the porcelain dial and hands. Alarm hand and time and 101. $100 strike hands set on the front. Brass case is 2.75 inches “F.H.Lovell & Co. / New York / USA / Pat. April 6, 1886”, square. Not signed anywhere. $10-$25. stamped on the base of this luminous dial clock. The clock is nickel plated on brass, winds underneath, and 110. $10 it is running. The kerosene jar is stamped, “Dixon / “Sure Alarm / Made In Germany”, signed on the dial of Made USA”. With the milk glass globe in place the this Heartbeat alarm clock. The brass case is 3 inches clock is almost 7 inches tall. The book by Thomas Spittler, tall, has floral decorations on the edge. Backwind “Clockmaker & Watchmakers of America”, does not list this maker, movement is running, alarming, and heart is beating. but does list “Lovell Mfg. Co. Ltd. Erie, Pa. luminous dial clock, ca $10-$25. 1893”. We have seen similar clocks, many made in Europe or the USA. $100-$200. 111. $21 The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Heartbeat” clock, ca 1930’s. One day back- 102. $10 wind movement runs a bit and quits. The case is 4.5 inch- Novelty clock, commonly called a “Tape Measure” es tall and the clock swivels between the two posts. The clock, made in the USA. It is running and the blue op of the posts and the ring around the dial are brass, finish is above average for this model clock. $10-$25. everything else is covered with a green alligator type paper. $25-$50. 103. $21 The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. novelty clock, featuring an ele- phant. The case is 6.5 inches tall and signed underneath. The one day backwind movement is running. Good signed dial and hands. The iron part of the case has paint

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112. $10 pouch that the watch can be folded into, I suppose to carry in a The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. “Heartbeat” clock, ca 1930’s. purse, etc. $50-$100. One day back wind movement does not have a key to wind but does have the hand knob. Celluloid case is 3 120. $10 inches high, has a chip of the bottom right, and a break Miniature French Heartbeat clock/watch, identical to in the glass. Parts ? $10 #514 and made by the same maker and signed the same. The backwind movement is running and heart 113. $21 is beating. This one comes with a folding, latching, “L. S. Mayer / Germany No Jewels”, signed on this back case. Case original to clock? Who knows? $50-$100. wind one day movement. It is running and heart is beating. Bowed glass over the nice dial and hands. The 121. $10 green case appears to be porcelain, everything else is Miniature French Heartbeat clock/watch, identical to brass. The case is 2.75 inches high and has an easel #514 and #520 and made by the same maker and stand. $25-$50. signed the same. The only difference is the folding latching case. It is running and the heart is beating. 114. $10 $50-$100. Beautiful miniature French Heartbeat clock with a tiny watch move- ment. Backwind and set, movement is running and heart is beating. 122. $21 No markings on the dial or the back of the movement. German ceramic novelty clock featuring Far East ele- Underneath the base is inscribed, “Metal Dore / D.G.” and phant and rider. Backwind one day movement is run- some other French words. I wish it were gold but it is my ning. Dial is signed, “Made in Germany”. The case is 8.5 understanding “Metal Dore” means gold wash on brass. inches high. $25-$50. It is a beautiful watch/clock with a pearl bezel and base, wonderful back with designs all over like an expensive 123. $21 pocket watch. $50-$100. Three blinking eye clocks made in Japan. All three missing the small pendulums. Front wind one day movements. 111. $10 The cases are 6 inches tall, very colorful and complete, Miniature French animated clock/watch. The back except for the pendulums. As you know they are easy to of the case is signed, “Le petit Forgeron” and a lot get from Timesavers. $25-$50. of French words that I interpret to mean it is cov- ered with “Metal Dore”, or a gold wash. If it was 124. $21 gold wash then it has been rubbed off. Clock mounted to a marble The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. elephant novelty clock, ca base. Elaborate dial is signed the same as the case, plus some other 1930’s. Soapstone case is 7.5 inches wide and 6.5 inches French words at the base. It takes a watch key to wind and I do not high. The backwind one day movement is running. Sil- have one, so cannot say it is running, but all the small clocks like this ver dial is signed and very clean. $25-$50. one the collector had running. The cupid has a hammer in his hand that moves up and down when the movement is ticking. The case is 121. $21 3.5 inches wide by 2.75 inches high. $50-$100. The Lux Clock Mfg Co. elephant novelty clock, ca 1930’s, identical to #524. $25-$50. 116. $21 Miniature Heartbeat clock, signed “E. & J. Bass / Made In 126. $21 Germany”. The one day backwind movement is running The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. elephant novelty clock, ca and the heart is beating. Bowed glass in an unusual blue 1930’s, identical to #524 and #525 except this elephant sash, and hands are correct. $25-$50. has a saddle on his back. $25-$50.

117. $21 127. $10 Miniature Heartbeat clock, identical to #516, by same Six novelty items. The two very small ones on the left are signed by maker, just has different color dial ring. It is also running. NAWCC, the National Convention in New Orleans in 1990. Would run $25-$50. with watch batteries. The two in the middle at marked, “Kentucky” and are 118. $10 ceramic salt and pepper shakers. The Animated miniature clock, by same maker as #515 and two on the right are also ceramic salt has same type dial and also mounted on a marble and pepper shakers. $10-$25. base. This backwind movement has a regular wind knob. It is running and the cupids hand is holding a 128. $21 hammer which is going up and down. So #515 would do the same Jennings Brothers Mfg. Co. novelty clock for ele- animation if I had a key to wind it. The case is 2.5 inches by 2.5 inch- phant collectors. The porcelain dial and the move- es. $50-$100. ment are both signed by the maker. Backwind one day movement is running. Porcelain dial, hands, and 119. $10 beveled glass are all good. The iron case is 9.5 inches Animated miniature clock/watch, by same maker as #515 wide and 8 inches high. $25-$50. and #518. It has same back and front as #518, winds by a knob. Movement is running and the hammer in the Cupids 129. $21 hand is going up and down. This one has a gold colored “Golden Nov. Mfg. Co. Chicago”, signed on the case and on the

42 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures back of the movement. It looks like a different name few of these over the years and this case is as nice as we have sold. on the dial, but too small to read. The iron case is 12.5 $50-$100. inches wide and 12 inches high, ca 1880’s. Backwind one day movement is wound but not running. Case is 136. $10 copper colored. $25-$50. Switches and bulbs for Darche Bank Alarm and Darche Searchlight clocks. 130. $21 Elephant novelty clock. Signed on the dial, “Made in 137. $21 USA”. Backwind movement is running but there is “Manufactured by Darche Mfg. Co. Chicago, Ill”, signed on the nice only one hand on the dial and no glass. Not sure if clean dial of this “Searchlight Electric Alarm Clock”, ca there ever was one. The iron case is 9 inches high and 1886-1916. This model was patented 1910. It was made to 9.5 inches wide. $25-$50. take a large battery that fit in the entire base. Note the cord and light switch on clock #538 below. This one does FOR YOU GLASS BOTTLE COLLECTORS not have the cord. $50-$100.

131. $21 138. $21 “The Wigginton Mouse Exterminator, Winchester, Va.”, “Searchlight Electric Alarm Clock, ca 1886-1916. Same signed on this ca 1910 glass bait holder. Invented for use in as #537 except it has the light cord, the case is cleaner, crop fields to get rid of small rodents. It later was used in but the dial is not as nice. $50-$100. other places, barns, corn cribs, homes, etc. Bait was dropped to the bottom of the bottle and for some reason 139. $21 the rodents could not find their way out. The piece is 6.75 “Made by Darche Mfg. Co. Chicago”, signed on the inches tall and 2 inches wide at the base. $25-$100. top, and similar on the dial. Inscriptions on the silver case are, “Flash Light / Electric Alarm / Fireproof 132. $21 Safety Deposit”. Case is worn and not as nice as Five unusual bottles. L to R. 1. “Citrate of Magne- #535 above. $50-$100. sia”. 9 inches high. 2. Tiny bottle, 3 inches high. 3. Bottle with handle and metal cap, 7 inches high. 4. 140. $21 “Listerine Lambert Pharmacal Company”, 5 inches Two alarm clocks signed on the dial, “Made by the high. 5. “Meisburg’s Harrodsburg, Ky.”. 6 inches Parker Clock Co.”. Both cases are nickel plated, one high. dial is very dark and it has no time winding key. The $25-$50. other has a much better dial, has all the back knobs and is running. That dial is signed by a jewelry store in Grand Rapids, 133. $21 Mich. $25-$50. Pair of “Parker Clock Co.” patented alarm clocks. They are made the same so I showed the back of one, front of the other. They are 5.5 141. $200 inches tall, nickel plated cases. One is a little French Morbier 2 weight wall clock, ca 1870. It appears to cleaner on the back and one dial is slightly darker. be all original, is complete, and in operating condition. I just noticed one has metal winding knobs and Some Morbier sit on a metal wall bracket, some hang on one has unusual wood knobs. Stupid me, I could a nail. This one is a hanger. It is 60 inches tall not figuring not figure out how to move the hands on one of in the drop of the two original weights which could go them. There are two plungers on the side of the some lower. The only negative I see is a repaired chip on case, push them in and pull out the entire clockworks to set the the bowed porcelain dial. The dial is signed, “Blin / a Ma- alarm and move the hands. How clever. The other one has knobs on checoub”. It has a very attractive pair of Morbier hands. the back to move hands. $25-$100. The 8 day movement is housed in a tin box with two latching doors on the sides. The scene on the pressed 134. $21 brass dial surround is that of two farmers, with a pair of Two alarm clocks. The square one was made by horses, plowing their field. We have no reason, pro or con, to think “The Lux Clock Mfg. Co.” and is 4 inches high. It that the pressed brass pendulum did not come with the movement is signed on the dial, “Silvertone Thermo Alarm”. box. The 8 day movement has a crown wheel escapement, strikes Note at the bottom of the dial a red hand and hours on a bell on top, and strikes again 2 minutes after the hour to temperature gauge where it says, “Peters remind the good folks it is time to stop praying and go back to Shoes”. It is also an alarm clock and is running. work. $250-$400. The silver can calendar clock is an Ansonia “Repeater”. Backwind and set, bell on top, not running. I know all of them were running 142. $300 when I received them but I will not take them apart to get them Ansonia Clock Co. figure clock, “Bard”, ca 1894. moving. $25-$50. Ansonia made this figure with three different bases and clock towers. The figure was basically 131. $21 the same. This case is 17.5 inches wide and 16 “Made By Darche Mfg. Co. Chicago” signed on the inches tall. The Japanese Bronze finish is like new, top, and “DMC”, signed on the dial, ca 1886-1916. It and probably is. It is a complete clock and gener- takes a battery to operate the clock and alarm. On ally in very nice condition. It has a very nice bev- the left side is a bank, the bottom door says, eled glass in the sash, two piece signed porcelain dial, original “Fireproof / Safety Deposit”. Good dial and hands. We have seen a hands, and an open escapement on the dial. The metal cover over

43 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures the movement opening is missing. The 8 day movement is signed broken, two piece porcelain dial is dirty and has and running. It strikes half hours on a gong and the pendulum is some hairlines. The hands and open escapement correct. Ly-Ansonia, #473, #504, and #516. $400-$600. are good. Hinged metal cover over the back opening and pendulum inside is correct. The 143. $100 signed 8 day movement is running and striking. French marble mantel clock, ca 1890. Black marble with $50-$100. red marble accents and cast metal ornaments. It is 18 inches tall, complete and original except missing a pen- 149. $10 dulum. Sash with beveled glass, porcelain dial ring, Metal novelty clock, cupid holding clock. Not sure of maker brass inner dial, and pair of French hands. Hinged metal or country of origin but probably European or American. door over the back opening. Round brass time only The painted metal cast stands 21.5 inches high. The back- movement is not signed. $100-$200. wind one day movement ? runs some but is sluggish. This collector had all 2000 clocks running as he acquired them 144. $300 but after 30 years for some of them they may need some Ansonia Clock Co. enameled iron case, “Pompeii”, ca oil. The dial is a replacement, hands are good, and glass is 1904. Not including statue on top the clock is 11 inches good. The finish on the clock is good. I see a small piece high and 15 inches wide, clean and complete. It is missing on the base. $50-$100. certainly not a common model and generally sold without a seated statue on top. They made it finished 110. $200 in black, or Japanese or Verde Bronze. This is the first “Horolovar Company / Western Germany”, mouse clock, ca one I have seen finished in black. The sash is holding a 1970’s. Mahogany case is 25 inches tall and nearly perfect. beveled glass, two piece signed porcelain dial and pair of original The mouse, brass numerals, signed movement, etc. are all Ansonia hands. There is a metal cover over the back opening, and original, complete, and it is running. These mouse clocks are an 8 day signed movement with the correct pendulum bob. The just novelty clocks so don’t expect accurate timekeeping. movement is running and striking half hours and hours. Ly-Ansonia $250-$350. #968. $300-$500. 111. $210 141. $100 “Horolovar Company / Western Germany”, mouse Ansonia Clock Co. enameled iron case, ca 1904. A clock, ca 1970’s. Identical to #550 except this one has rather plain case with a few incised and gold filled never been out of the original box. In fact I had to open designs on the front. It is 14 inches wide and 10 the box to find out what was inside. $250-$350. inches high. Good beveled glass in the brass sash, signed two piece porcelain dial, and open escape- 112. $110 ment on the dial. The dial ring has several hairlines. “Gem Safety Razor”, clock with an 8 day movement made Metal cover over the back opening, correct pendulum bob inside, by the Ansonia Clock Co. The painted tin case is 29 inches and the signed 8 day movement. It is running and striking half hours high and 13 inches wide. Paint is near perfect and is origi- and hours. $150-$300. nal. The slotted pocket at the bottom originally held a paper calendar. The double wind, time only, 8 day move- 146. $10 ment is running and is signed, “Ansonia”. On the back are Waterbury Clock Co. enameled iron cased clock with printed instructions for operating the clock. The instruc- gold painted designs on the front. The clock is 11 inch- tions are signed, “American Safety Razor Corporation”. es tall, has double slanted sides, pendulum access thru $200-$350. the base. Inside, on the backboard is a complete paper label indicating the clock was sold thru their sales out- 113. $100 let in New York City. It has an 8 day movement that is Framed picture of Tower of London featuring Big Ben running and striking on a large iron bell. $75-$150. in the tower, ca 1920. Hundreds were sold as souve- nirs of the Tower and the Big Ben clock. It is not a real 147. $10 rarity but is unusual and this frame has a cast metal Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co. nautical motif clock, book- border and some mother of pearl inlay that acts as shelf or whatever. It has a label on the back that says, light reflecting from the full moon positioned just to “A Cushman Product / N. Bennington, Vermont”. the right of the clock. The frame is 27 inches high and Records indicate there were several “Merchants of 21 inches wide. It has a wire hanger on the back and the backboard Clocks” named Cushman that resided in Vermont. is hinged to access the clock movement. It has a metal dial ring, The large wood case is 27 inches high and 19 inches good unsigned dial, and small thin hands. I did not wind the move- wide. The wood has age darkened. Note the ship ment. Why would you wind the one day movement anyway? We painted on the dial and the hands formed as swords. A pin on top have seen a few of these sell, some by us, other auctions, and on releases the entire ships wheel with round brass movement case EBay, selling in the $150-$350 range generally. behind it. The dial is signed, “Gilbert 1892”. That is about the time most of the Cushman folks were selling clocks. $100-$250. 114. $21 “The E. Ingraham Co. / Bristol, Conn.”, hanging clock, 148. $10 “Natal”, ca 1927. It has a two colored front, stained to Seth Thomas marble clock with colored marble accents and gold resemble inlay. The mahogany case is 16 inches tall, filled incised designs. It is 18 inches wide and 11 inches high, having clean, all original, and in excellent condition. It has a no major cracks or chips, only tiny corner nicks. The beveled glass is convex glass in a silver sash, a signed silver dial, and orig-

44 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures inal hands. The 8 day time only movement is running. On the back is day time and strike movements are rarely signed and there are no a complete paper label. Ly-Ingraham #420. $25-$50. labels or names on the dials. The cylinder movement is running and striking a gong in the base when coins are depos- 111. $21 ited. It usually rings one time but every 3-4-5 coins Sessions Clock Co. small wood mantel clock standing it may ring 2 or 3 time and kicks out a like number 9.5 inches high. It has metal feet on each corner and of coins when it does. All the parts are there in- metal capitals and bases on the half columns. It is a cluding a coin tray in the bottom to collect depos- very plain clock. Bowed glass in the metal sash, signed ited coins. Apparently you have to fill up the dis- dirty dial and good hands. There is no cover over the pensing tube yourself to assure winnings are dis- movement opening. The 8 day movement is running persed. The back cover has a key lock and a glass viewing port. The and striking a gong and the pendulum is correct for this dial is a paper replacement. We have another one in this auction, clock. $25-$50. see #580. $250-$500.

116. $10 161. $21 Ansonia Clock Co. wood cased mantel clock, “The E. Ingraham Company” mantel clock, “Cornell”, “Flint”, ca 1883. The mahogany case is 16.5 inches ca 1934. The mahogany case is 10 inches high and al- tall, dark and not cleaned. Door and base are most 10 inches wide and is complete and original. Back painted black with gold striping and bronze orna- cover has a full label, bowed glass on the front over a ments around the top of the door and on the raised numeral metal dial. Dial shows wear where base corners. It has an excellent original glass, fingers rub. The dial is signed and the hands are origi- old pendulum, brass dial rings, correct hands, and nal. It has an 8 day movement that is running and striking on a gong. a replaced paper dial. The 8 day movement is running and striking Ly-Ingraham #1082. $25-$50. on a bell. On the back is a complete paper label. Ly-Ansonia #1718. $50-$100. 162. $21 Seth Thomas wooden alarm clock, “Modern”, ca 1909. The mahoga- 117. $21 ny case is9.5 inches high, complete and original. The dial is original Seth Thomas mantel clock, “O.G. Kitchen”, ca 1874. and signed, “Seth Thomas / Automatic Eight Day Long Mahogany veneered case is 16 inches high with good Alarm / Patented Aug.25, 1908”. They named it “Long veneer all over, with exception of one or two tiny cor- Alarm” for good reason for it will ring 15 minutes if ner chips. Old mirror in the door, working door latch, you don’t shut it off. There is a flat glass in the bezel. It and complete paper label inside. The old dial has been has original hands including the alarm set hand and poorly repainted and ST hands are correct. The early the alarm shut off hand. A goodly portion of the label one day brass movement is running and striking an iron remains on the removable wooden backboard. Ly- bell on the hours. Note the alarm set ring in the dial. The alarm Seth Thomas #42. $25-$50. movement is missing in the lower part of the case. Pendulum and key inside. $125-$50. 163. $110 “Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Company” hanging calendar 118. $10 clock, “Admiral”, ca 1901. They also made this identical Gilbert Clock Co. wood cased mantel clock, model without a calendar. The oak case is almost 27 “Geranium”, ca 1900. Oak case is clean with pressed inches tall, very clean and all original. It only has one designs of geranium flowers all over. It should be 24 fault, and that is obvious, the stained dial. One must inches tall but the top 2.5 inches is missing according to assume the movement was oiled with a spray to get catalog pictures. However, the top certainly looks to be that much oil on the dial. The glasses, bright brass dial bezel and original upon close inspection?? It has an 8 day time and rings, the 3 hands, and the pendulum, are all original. On the back is gong striking movement that is running and a separate alarm move- a complete label. The 8 day movement is running and striking the ment in the bottom. The alarm rings on a bell and the clock strikes gong each hour. Ly-Gilbert #206. $200-$350. half hours on a gong. No label, dial is a replacement, door glass is original. Ly-Gilbert #1185. $50-$100. 164. $1000 Seth Thomas hanging clock, “Lobby 14 Inch”, ca 1896. I cannot be- 119. $71 lieve it has been 16 years since I sold this model. “Brewster & Ingrahams, / Bristol, Conn.”, beehive case mantel They are rare and hard to find, especially in the con- clock, ca 1843. Rosewood veneered case is 19 inches dition of this cherry cased clock. It has the original tall, has very good veneer all over but has a couple of finish, a little crusty, probably never cleaned, but good patch pieces near the base. Door lock with ivory surely polished and protected. It is 30.5 inches tall escutcheon and key, but key does not work for me. and has some very attractive wood work from top Glasses are old but cannot swear they are original to to bottom. Key locking door, original glass, and this case. Dial is a paper replacement and hands look original painted 14 inch dial signed two places, origi- funky. Pendulum, key, and excellent paper label inside. nal hands, brass beat scale and brass pendulum The 8 day brass movement is running and striking bob. The 15 day movement is signed, running cor- hours on a coil gong. $100-$200. rectly, and retains the Geneva locks. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 342. We sold one for near $6000 in 2007, and another for a lesser amount 160. $200 but it had several problems. $1500-$2000. American Gamblers Clock. We have had a few of these black mantel clocks over the years, made by several different companies. The 8

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161. $100 the gong. Mercury pendulum is good. $100-$250. Ships clock mounted to a shelf. Bubba did not like the black Bakelite type case hanging on the wall by itself so 171. $100 he made a shelf for it. Now he can keep things in the Seth Thomas mantel clock, one of the City Series, the drawer on the bottom, such as the key. The clock is not “Victoria”, ca 1879. One of the earlier models that signed on the front, but I suspect it is a Seth Thomas. was made during a 20 year stretch when they made The inscription on the dial says, “US / Clock Message their better clocks. Close to 1900 they began to Center M2”. It has four hands; the red ones purpose I cheapen their clocks I suppose to meet competition. don’t know, the large hand is the second’s hand. It is hinged on the The walnut case is 18 inches tall, has a latching door right, thumb screw locked on the left. The case is 7.5 inches. The with gold around the glass, and a black label inside movement is time only and running. $100-$200. the case. The pendulum is different and more elaborate that all the ST City Series pendulums except for the glass ones. It has had some 166. $100 repairs but is very unusual. Inside is the signed 8 day movement, Seth Thomas hotel alarm clock. Not being knowledgeable about alarm ring, brass dial rings, original hands, alarm movement, and such things I can only assume there must be other nickel bell on which both the alarm and clock rings. The dial ring is parts, i.e. wires or something. The previous collec- worn and the inner dial piece is missing. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 211. tor said it had a No.10 movement, I did not take it $100-$200. apart to check. I do know there are 60 metal pull out knobs around the outside of the bezel, every 172. $10 fifth one is different, meaning they are the hour E. Ingraham Clock Co. mantel clock, “Ricarda”, ca knobs, others are minutes. The dial is signed; mi- 1880. The rosewood case is 16 inches tall, extremely nute hand has a brass extension that touches the 60 small posts nice and clean, revealing the unusual rosewood grain- around the chapter ring. The oak case is about 12 inches square. It is ing. The door glass is original and excellent, the door what it is. Sorry, but that is all I know. $100-$200. latch is intact, and inside is a dark paper label. The dial paper is new, hands are not correct, alarm ring and 167. $100 alarm movement are original, and both the alarm and Waterbury Clock Co. metal clock with statues on clock strike on a nickel bell. The 8 day movement is running and top. The previous collector said it was a Waterbury striking properly. The nice pendulum is seen on many Ingraham clock. I did not find it in the catalogs and did not clocks so must assume it is correct for this model. Ly-Ingraham disassemble to inspect the movement. It is large #854, $75-$150. standing 19 inches tall and is 16 inches wide. Made of a lightweight thin metal, decorated nicely to look 173. $110 like an expensive clock, but it isn’t. The movement is 8 day time and “Ball Watch Co. / Cleveland”, short drop oak railroad strike, and running. The dial and hands may be replacements and all clock, ca 1879. The 24 inch high oak case is identical to the gold paint looks like it was repainted. $100-$250. those made by Seth Thomas and other makers during the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. The original painted metal 168. $10 dial has faded some and is signed by Ball. The glass Seth Thomas mantel clock, “Column Rosewood”, ca may be a replacement and not sure about hands alt- 1863. Nice 25 inch high rosewood veneered case with hough they are proper. The small glass is probably rosewood grained half columns on the sides. Two or original, and inside is a near complete and brittle label. It would be three corner nicks on the base otherwise very nice. advisable not to put the pendulum and key inside except when in Glasses are original, knob and latch on the door, origi- use. The inside label says, “Directions for setting / Ball’s Railroad nal painted dial is very nice, pair of iron 30 hour Office Clocks”, then the directions, followed by, “The Ball Watch weights, old brass pendulum bob, and most of the Co. / Manufacturers / Cleveland”. The 8 day time only movement is paper label remains on the backboard. The signed signed by Seth Thomas and it is running. The pendulum does not movement is one day weight driven, running and striking on a coil look like any I have ever seen but then I have never had a clock like gong. Weight cords, winding crank, and hands, may all be original to this one. $250-$500. the case. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 521. $75-$150. 174. $200 169. $21 Ansonia Clock Co. hanging “Gallery”, clock, ca 1904. Seth Thomas mantel clock, one of the Colonial Series, this The solid walnut case is about 18 inches high and the being, “Colonial No.2”, ca 1913. Case made of Old Oak and 24 hour dial about 14 inches. The painted metal dial stands 18 inche high. It has a latching door with original and both hands appear to be original to this case. On glass, original dial and hands, complete paper label, and the bottom is a latching door accessing the pendu- very nice brass pendulum bob. The 8 day movement is lum. The 8 day movement is running. The brass bezel signed, runs, and strikes on a gong. Ly-Seth Thomas is very large and heavy but must be to properly hold the large glass. #2270. $50-$100. The bezel latches behind the round case. $250-$500.

170. $100 171. $100 French crystal regulator with a live mercury pendulum, E. Ingraham Clock Co. hanging kitchen clock with level ca 1890. It has four beveled glasses, all excellent except on the bottom and thermometer on the top. Nice the back glass that is broken. One piece porcelain dial, pressed designs in the clean 24 inch high oak case. It is nice French hands, and a hanging coil gong. The 8 day complete and original including the Peacock glass, movement is signed, running, and striking half hours on pendulum, and other internal parts except for the

46 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures replaced paper dial. The 8 day movement is running and striking on no labels or names on the dials. This one has a label on the back. The a Cathedral gong. This clock also has an alarm movement that rings company was headquartered at Pana, Illinois. The cylinder move- on an iron bell. I suspect the case was once very dark/smoky, but ment is running and striking a gong in the base when coins are de- has been cleaned and waxed. $100-$200. posited. It usually rings one time but every 3-4-5 coins it may ring 2 or 3 time and kicks out a like number of coins when it does. All the 176. $400 parts are there. Apparently you have to fill up the dispensing tube Seth Thomas Sonora Chime Clock No.14”, ca 1911. yourself to assure winnings are dispersed. Note I did not have the They made the beautifully sounding clocks from 1909 dispensing brass tube in its slot for the picture. $250-$500. thru 1923 but discontinued making them because of the cost of the bells and the fact that it required two 181. $1100 different movements in the cases. This case is ma- “Henry S. Prentiss / Lessee / Prentiss Calendar & Time Co. / New hogany and stands 14 inches high, retaining the origi- York”, copied from the dial of their “60 Day Empire With Calendar” nal finish, now very dark and slightly crusty. It has a 6 model, ca 1897. These clocks have quality brass move- inch convex etched silvered dial and a convex bev- ments, this one is double spring driven time only eled glass. The silver dial is signed two places and the hands are movement with a solid brass front plate and pierced original. The hinged back door has a round opening with a perforat- iron black plate and Graham dead beat escapement. It ed brass cover and cloth covering behind. The purpose of course is has a long drop pendulum with a wood stick and en- to allow the sound of the Sonora resonated bells to escape the graved brass covered bob. The movement is num- clock. The chime movement is marked “90B”, and the 8 day running bered “812” over “Pat. Dec 10, 1889” over “1117”. The movement is marked, “89AG”. The pendulum, key, five bells, and center arbor of the movement has a snail gear con- on off switch, are all intact. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 157. $500-$750. nected to a rod which lowers to trigger the release lever on the top of the calendar mechanism. Once a 177. $110 day the release lever is engaged which rotates the Ansonia Clock Co. “12 Inch Drop Octagon”, ca 1906. calendars “day” cylinder and the 31 date rotary “flick” Mahogany veneered case is 24 inches high, has a few card style mechanism which operates on a separate small chips and some veneer loose but holding. Latch- spring. The month and day barrels have original paper labels but the ing brass bezel and lower door. Both doors may be date cards have replaced labels. The oak case is 37 inches high, in original. Three correct hands and signed original dial original finish, and the movements are functioning properly. The with slight darkening. Inside label but difficult to read, entire front of the case slides off to easily access the interior of the very dark. The movement is 8 day, time only, signed, clock. The calendar mechanism has its own huge spring and the running, and calendar is changing properly. Pendulum bob looks to time movement has two large springs wound from one wind arbor. be original. Ly-Ansonia #137. $200-$350. Ly-American, Volume 2, and Ly-Calendar. $1500-$2000.

178. $200 182. $21 New Haven Clock Co. banjo clock, “Washington”, ca 1923. Blinking Eye Owl. Has a Cuckoo movement, weight and According to the catalogs they made this model as a 30 chains. Pendulum is a replacement. It is about 10 inches not day clock only, however our clock has two winding ar- counting the pendulum, weight, or chains. It runs some, I bors, not three, so it must be an 8 day model for the 30 oiled it in a few places, should do better going forward. day models show 3 winding arbors. Ours is double wind, Signed by, “Kyowa Mfg. Co., Tokyo, Japan”. $25-$50. time only. You be the judge. The mahogany case is about 42 inches tall and 12 inches wide, doors top and bottom, 183. $21 metal eagle and side rails. The 8 inch silver dial has some Small gallery clock. Walnut case is 8.5 inches, dial is 5.5 inches. wear and spotting, hands are correct, dial is signed, hand Hands are original, dial is a replacement, glass is painted glasses are original, and so is the long pendulum. original. This little case contains an unsigned 8 day The movement is running. Ly-New Haven #221. $300-$500. movement with alarm feature. It is running. I could not believe it so took the dial off and made it alarm. 179. $100 There is no bell and never was. The hammer strikes a Waterbury Clock Co. hanging clock, “Admiral”, ca 1930, movement post. Makes a loud racket so I guess that the later model. The made one slightly different in 1906. is enough. $50-$100. It is in a light oak case standing 32 inches high, has latch- ing door and bezel, and complete label on the back. The 184. $10 hands, pendulum, and pendulum stick are original, but New Haven Clock Co. banjo. Very nice mahogany case is 21 the dial paper and top glass are replacements. The 8 day inches high, has brass eagle, brass side rails, and brass sash time only movement is running. Ly-Waterbury #709. $150 holding a beveled glass. The porcelain dial is near perfect -$250. and hands are original. Hinged metal door over the winding arbor and hand set knob in back of the movement. The 180. $210 movement is 8 day, time only, and running. $50-$100. “The Progressive Mfg. Co.”, novelty clock, ca 1880 -1887. We have had a few of these black mantel 181. $21 clocks over the years, made by several different “Pluto Clock”, made by Allied Mfg. Company, Seattle. companies. Compare this one with #560 in this Plastic case is 9 inches high and near perfect. Eyes and auction. They are very similar in many ways, yet tongue move up and down as clock runs. Note the bone no doubt made by a different maker. The 8 day hands and good electric cord. Everything operating time and strike movements are rarely signed and usually there are properly. $25-$50.

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186. $21 194. $21 Popeye tin novelty. It takes a D battery inserted under- German nickel plated carriage clock, signed, “FMS”. neath. There is an on/off switch on the back and a light Excellent overall condition except the alarm bell (or bulb in the glass which is his stomach. Both arms are music) in the base, is not ringing. Clock is signed and held by one piece of wire. The purpose? I don’t have a running. $25-$50. clue what it is supposed to do but I would assume the arms are animated somehow. I put a D battery in but nothing hap- 191. $21 pened. The tin item is about 8 inches high. $25-$50. Waterbury Clock Co. miniature carriage clock. Elaborate cast metal case is 4.5 inches tall and is complete. One 187. $10 day backwind movement is signed and running. Glass is Totem Pole blinking eye clock by Mi-Ken, a Japanese compa- beveled and bowed, dial and hands are original. Dial has ny. One day movement winds in front, has pendulum, stands a repair between the 5 and 6. $25-$50. 12 inches tall. $10-$25. 196. $21 188. $100 Junghans nickeled carriage clock. Dial and movement “Forestville Manufacturing Co. Bristol, CT.U.S.A.”, column & cornice are signed, movement is also silver plated. It is a time shelf clock, ca 1845. The company name and address were spelled and alarm movement and is running. I cannot make it three different ways on the dial, movement, and alarm, although it is complete and should. The case is 7 label. The mahogany veneered case is 35 inches tall inches tall. $25-$50. and is retaining the original finish, now darkened. The veneer is actually pretty nice but there are a 197. $21 few tiny chips on the top and base flat edges. If not “The Lux Clock Mfg. Co.”, plastic cased clock that for the signed wood dial having many stretch originally was grouped with 8-10 items found on marks the clock would make a good impression. women’s dressers, i.e. hair brush, comb, etc. It is You may want to repaint the middle glass but oth- running. $25-$50. erwise a nice early 8 day weight driven clock. It has a complete but darkened label, replaced pendulum 198. $21 bob and hands, no iron weights, but everything German carriage clock, time and alarm. Signed on the else is present and original. The clock certainly has a lot of potential. dial “FMS”. It is running and the music plays on cue. $150-$300. Nickel plated case is 7 inches tall. $25-$50.

189. $10 199. $21 “Dickory Dock Musical Clock”, by Mattel. All parts are Clock – Cigarette lighter. Metal case is 6 inches tall, com- present and original. The collector who owned the 2000 plete and in very good condition. The backwind one day novelty clocks had everyone working but I hesitate to movement is running. The dial is signed but I am not sure of force the mouse down or turn the crank. I believe it is the name. $25-$50. operational but will not guarantee. The painted tin case is 15 inches. Clock does not run, it is just a teaching tool. The 600. $21 mouse and music is supposed to do their things. $50-$100. Ansonia Clock Co. novelty, a metal elephant holding a clock. It is 7 inches wide and 5.5 inches high. Good 190. $21 green paint on the metal. Flat glass over the signed “Pluto Clock”. Same as #585 but this one is new in the dial and original hands. Backwind and set one day original box. $25-$50. movement is running. $25-$50.

191. $10 601. $21 “Batman Talking Alarm Clock With Robin the Boy Won- Ansonia Clock Co. novelty clock. Case is gold gilt on der”. New in the original box, ca 1975. Cost $15.95 new in copper, 8 inches wide, 6 inches high. Perfect porce- 1975. $10-$25. lain dial is signed, has a seconds dial and 3 original hands, and faint hairlines between the 8 and 9. The 192. $10 movement is 8 day time only and running. $25-$50. Iron automaton dog with clock. It is wound tight and not running. Porcelain dial has breaks, hands 602. $21 and tail are suspect. Tongue and tail move when New Haven Clock Co. novelty clock. I am guessing it depicts clock ticks. Winds in back, iron case is easy to disas- Columbus. The case is 11 inches tall, bird on the very top. semble. It is 7.5 inches wide, 6 inches high. $50-$100. The metal looks like tarnished silver but there are no hall- marks. Beveled glass, signed dial, and original hands. Like 193. $21 all this collectors clocks he had it running years ago, now Pair of miniature porcelain clocks. New Haven case is sluggish, needs service. $25-$50. about 6 inches by 5 inches and in near perfect condi- tion. Excellent dial, hands, glass, and bezel. Back- 603. $21 wind and set one day movement is running. Mer- “The Lux Clock Mfg. Co.” clock/bank. Painted metal case cedes case, made in Germany, is not as old as the New Haven. It is 6 is 6 inches high. Has slots for dimes and quarters, key inches high, excellent overall, and is running. $25-$50. lock on the base but no key. Nice glass, signed dial, and

48 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures original hands. Backwind movement is running. $25-$50. and the alarm is functioning. Cigarette lighter should work with fluid. Dial signed, “Swiss / Phinney-Walker”. 604. $21 $25-$50. Two clocks. Waterbury metal case marked, “Benedict Karnak Brass”. It is 8 inches wide, 4.5 inches high. Porcelain dial is real nice, 612. $21 signed by Waterbury and there is a large “B” German 8 day clock and cigarette lighter. Metal base is 8 on the dial which I suppose stands for Bene- inches wide, engraved on the base, “National Leader / October dict. The backwind one day movement is 1959”. Salesman prize?? 8 day backwind movement running. German clock with elephant on top. is running, alarm set knob is missing. Good dial is Dial signed, “Germany”, has good hands and signed, “Rensie / 8 Days / Germany”. Cigarette light- glass in brass sash. Metal case is 5.5 inches high and almost 5 wide. er sits in a grove on the base and it would be opera- Backwind one day movement is running. $25-$50. tional with fluid. $25-$50.

601. $21 613. $21 Three clocks, L to R. 1. Novelty clock, 4.5 inches high, small chip/ Two alarm clocks. Ansonia “Six Inch Peep-O-Day”, break on right side of case. Backwind one day movement is running. one day time, alarm, ca 1886. Complete nickeled Porcelain dial with seconds, good hands. Case marked, cannot read. case and bell but is not running. Dial is signed. Lux 2. “Keyless / Rim Wind-Rim Set / 8 Day / Made In U.S.A.” It is run- alarm clock, not old, movement and alarm are good. ning. Case is 4 inches wide, 2.5 inches deep. $10-$25. 3. “Rensie Watch Co. / Germany”. Plays pret- ty music and clock is running but that is all I 614. $21 can say for it. $25-$50. Three clocks. German mini alarm in a nickeled case only 2 inches by 2 inches. Not running, it has been 606. $10 too many years since anyone wound it. Collector Two items. Cigarette lighter/clock by “Phinney Walker”. It is 4.5 had all clocks running in the 2000 piece collection. inches tall, has good paint, dial, glass, and hands. Backwind one day German mini alarm in a brass case only 2 inches square. Backwind movement is running and lighter works. movement is running. Joslin’s Eclipse Time Stamp, ca 1919. $25-$50. Unique Pigeon Timer, Model 100A, Pat. Feb 7, 1913. I don’t know if is operational, or all 611. $21 there, but knowing the collector I figure it is Two wood desk clocks. Elgin round top clock all there and functioning. $10-$50. has an 8 day movement that is running. Front wind knob below the black dial. Has a 607. $10 seconds hand and white luminous white hands. Wood case is 8 inch- Three clocks. New Haven metal novelty, porcelain dial is signed, es by 3 inches. Second wood case is 7 by 4, cheaply made case. Dial backwind one day movement not running, 4 inches high. Swivel signed, “Atlanta Envelope Company / Manufacturers / Printers”. Has desk clock by “Silvercraft”. Metal case is 6 by 4.5 inches, one day no winding knob. $25-$50 backwind movement is running. The Lux Clock Mfg. Co. dresser clock. Jeweled case 616. $21 with easel stand is 3.5 inches. Backwind one Three clocks. 1. Dial signed, “WCCo”, Waterbury Clock Co. ?? Metal day movement is running. $10-$50. case is 5.5 inches high, has good glass, signed dial, three hands. Backwind one day movement 608. $21 is running. 2. Westclox Tiny Tim, silver case is 2.5 Early iron case clock with MOP inlays and gold painted inches high, backwind one day movement is designs. The 9.5 inch high case also has full columns on running. 3. Same as #2, and it is running. $25-$50. all four corners. The painted case has minor paint loss and is not signed anywhere visible except, “Pat. Appl. 617. $21 For”. The backwind movement is double wind so I sus- Blinking eye clock with cuckoo weight and chain. The wood pect it runs 8 days. The bezel/sash is brass and very fan- case is 8 inches tall and has painted face, cuckoo type numer- cy. Dial may be a replacement. $25-$50. als and hands. The movement is not running but the clock is complete. $25-$50. 609. $10 New Haven Clock Co. novelty, iron chicken. It is 8.5 inches 619. $10 tall, has a glass eye, very dark signed paper dial, and one “Barnes, Bartholomew & Co., Bristol, Conn.” column day backwind movement. Hand set knob is missing and it and splat case with a 30 hour wood movement, ca 1833. is not running. $50-$100. Mahogany veneered case is 33.5 inches tall, half col- umns and splat are painted black, old mirror in the door 610. $21 but not sure if original, and ivory escutcheon and key German six minute timer. Dial signed, “COC” and lock on the door, but no key. It has a pair of old 30 hour “Made In Germany”. It is running and stands 2.5 iron weights, old pendulum bob, old hands and dial, old inches tall. Wood base and brass case, all in excel- iron bell, and a working wood movement. Very little lent condition. $25-$50. label left but enough to identify the maker. $50-$100.

611. $21 620. $100 Swiss clock and cigarette lighter. Backwind movement is running Sessions Clock Co. floor standing clock. It is 66 inches tall which

49 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures ranks it between a grandmother and a grandfather size. It has tured in Ly-Seth Thomas, page 380. $150-$300. a small one day cylinder movement that is running. Silver dial is signed, hands are correct, and there is a bowed glass over 621. $10 the dial. The case is in very good condition except for a small German RA type wall clock, 27 inches tall, ca 1880. Miss- chip on the base, lower left side. Unfortunately in front but ing the top piece and bottom finials. It has three glasses, some stain would help. $100-$250. door latch, and applied decorations on the door. One decoration is broken, pieces inside the case. The 8 day 621. $110 movement is unsigned and is running. Two piece porce- Austrian mantel clock. I have sold clocks like this made in the 1700’s lain dial is very nice, has the original hands and brass but this one may be early 1800’s. They went all out with decorations rings. It strikes on a coil gong behind the movement. $50 and it is hard to picture everything especially the -$100. music box in the base. I have never seen one that had not has lots of restoration I would guess be- 626. $100 cause of all the fragile ornaments and attachments. French Morbier, 2 weight wall clock, ca 1870. It has a very unusual The wood case is 26.5 inches high and 16 inches dial, light blue numerals on the white slightly bowed porcelain dial. wide. Most had a finial or ornament on the top. This The numerals are like cartouche numerals, outer ring marked for one has a piece or ivory looking material. There are minutes, inner ring marked 1-31 for the calendar hand. I do not be- four full glass columns and two half columns all lieve I have ever sold a Morbier with a calendar feature. The three with bronze capitals and bases. I can tell there has hands are original. The dial is signed, “Godeau / been some reconstruction on the backboard, par- a’Fresnay.s/.-Sarthe”. There are some light hairlines ticularly some added support for the mirror. The on the dial. The large iron weights are the correct movement is not signed, only numbered. Typical of this type Austri- type for this clock. It does not have a pendulum. an clocks it runs only 2-3 days. It has two strike hammers, one They are easy to find. I see them all the time on strikes quarter hours, the other the house. At 15 after one hammer EBay. You can buy a folding pendulum with a small strikes one time, and the other strikes the previous hour. At 30 after brass bob, a large lyre type with big brass bob, or a it strikes two times, then the previous hour, etc. The music plays but pendulum with the pressed brass like the dial sur- is not playing correctly with the chimes. There are teeth missing on round. The movement is enclosed in a tin box with both latching the comb. The porcelain dial has some chips repaired around one of doors present. $150-$300. the three winding arbors, hands are correct, and the glass is bowed. A very interesting and complicated clock. $250-$500. 627. $21 German made hanging clock. The 8 day movement winds in 622. $100 front. Glass dial with painted numerals and original hands. French oval crystal regulator, ca 1880. Nice brass case is Dial is signed, “Henri Lagin, Fils et Cie”. The dial and brass 11 inches tall, has four beveled glasses all excellent, and ring measures 12.5 inches, the chain alone is 36 inches allow- door knobs front and back. Live mercury pendulum, ing you to let the clock hang 4-5 feet or less is desired. $25- hanging gong, 8 day movement signed “Marti”, and it $50. is running and striking on half hours and hours. Bronze dial has darkened from fingers rubbing, numbers are 628. $21 clear so should clean up nicely, and hands are original. “Hamilton Sangamo Synchronous” electric shelf clock Dial signed, “J. E. Caldwell & Co.”. As nice an oval as you will find made in Springfield, Illinois, ca 1928. Very nice 11 inch but does need polishing. $600-$900. walnut case with incised design around the front, bowed glass in a brass sash, signed silver dial and origi- 623. $200 nal hands. Metal plaque “label” on the back. Clock is “Chelsea Clock Co. / Boston / U. S. Government / Ser. No.” 24 hour running. $25-$50. dial clock, time only, ca 1963. Made under contract for the U.S. Gov- ernment, plaque on the back lays out the contract 629. $100 number and other details. Housed in a bakelite case Seth Thomas hanging “Marble No. 0”, ca 1913. This is 10 inches in diameter, hinged top with screw down a 30 day pendulum model, time only, fitted with a latch. Seconds hand and time only movement. It is large double spring No.86-AE signed movement, running, very clean and like new all over. $250-$500. with Graham dead beat escapement. The diameter of the dial is 14 inches with a 12 inch time circle. They 624, $110 fitted these clocks to please each buyer. This one has Seth Thomas gallery clock named, “Self Winding No.1”, ca 1924. In spade hands and is front wind. The dial, hands, an oak case 18 inches by 18 inches, key locking door and large brass movement and pendulum are all correct but the wood case has had sash and glass. The painted metal dial is 14 inches and in decent extensive but professional repairs, or is completely new. I would condition for its age and use. Signed by Seth Thomas two places, have thought you could access the pendulum thru a door on the seconds dial and large hands. The self winding clock movement is bottom, not so with this case. You have to remove the dial to access battery operated and the battery presently inside is running the the movement. As long as you kept the clock wound there would be clock. It has to be pretty old. ST describes the oper- no need to remove the dial. Ly-Seth Thomas, #1123. $750-$1000. ating process as, “driven by a weight which oper- ates directly in the center wheel. It is automatically 630. $10 rewound every four minutes. During the rewinding Seth Thomas “Banjo No. 8”, ca 1929. It has an 8 day pendulum a maintaining spring in the center wheel provides movement No.120, and is running and striking a long rod. The two driving power”. This clock and movement are pic- George Washington glasses are original, and very good. Brass side

50 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures rails, brass sash with bowed glass, and a metal eagle on the 40 years some dried out. Metal cases are 15 inches tall. Made by top. Mahogany case is 29 inches high, has original finish. United Electric Clock Co. $25-$50. There is a complete paper label on the back and a small label calling this clock, “Crandall”. Ly-Seth Thomas #170. 639. $100 $100-$200. Morbier wall clock. Porcelain dial is signed, “Pedro Blanco / Salamanca”, is in perfect condition, and hands are original. 631. $21 Pressed brass dial surround with tin movement box behind. Waterbury Clock Co. mantel clock, “Sharp Gothic” stee- Both latching doors are present. 8 day movement is run- ple clock, ca 1867. It looks nice but the 29.5 inch high ning and striking an iron bell on top, then repeats a “Prayer case now has no veneer, no alarm movement, and a Strike” two minutes after the hour. The large brass lyre replaced tablet and metal dial. On the plus side it has a pendulum is proper and one of several types of pendulums really nice paper label, original one day brass movement, you may see with Morbier clocks. The large iron weights coil gong, and brass pendulum. It is running and as I said are similar to weights you see on the Morbier. $200-$300. it looks good. Ly-Waterbury #1493. $25-$50. 640. $21 632. $21 Seth Thomas metal novelty clock, “Lodge”, ca 1900. The one day Three 400 day clocks, L to R – 1. Kundo, 8.5 inch- lever movement strikes a brass bell underneath the es, no dome, did not test. 2. German, complete case. The frame is nickel plated and brass, but is worn and running with AA battery. 3. Schatz, bowed and dirty. The case is complete, even has the latching glasses all around, complete and running. 8 inch- brass back door, flat glass on the sides, flat glass over es high. $25-$50. the dial, original dial and 4 hands. It is running and strik- ing and movement is signed. I have seen nicer but not 633. $10 for this minimum. Ly-Seth Thomas #2139. $25-$50. Statue to hold a swing arm. I have never seen a swing arm statue like this, it is not signed, paint is not good. It is 13.5 641. $21 inches tall. $10-$25. Two miniature clocks. 1. Ansonia Clock Co. nov- elty clock, “Bee”, ca 1906. It is 3 inches tall and 634. $10 has a 2 inch time only signed dial, original hands, Cuckoo case, 12.5 inches high. It has the correct back and flat glass in a brass sash. Backwind one day with coil gong attached. Nothing inside the case, no movement is not running. 2. “The Jewel Mfg. numerals on the dial. And the doors for the cuckoo to Co. Auburn, N.Y.”, miniature novelty clock. It is key wound and set come out are missing and it now has a wood cover. It is on the back, not running, movement needs attention. The brass what it is. $10-$25. case is 2 inches high, probably made to insert in a case. Dial is signed. $25-$50. 631. $100 Mastercrafter “Lava Tube”, one of the very rare electric 642. $10 novelty clocks made by this company. I have sole 2-3 in 3 car clocks. 1. Waltham, 8 day, nickel coated case is 2.75 the past for around $350. The lava tube is functioning inches. Running. 2. Westclox, nickel case, dial is 1. 5/8 properly, the light bulb is good and the clock movement inches. Not running. 3. Elgin, nickel case, dial signed and is running. The case is 11.5 inches high, complete, all orig- is 1.75 inches. Not running. $50-$100. inal, and has the label on the back. $200-$300. 643. $10 636. $100 Two clocks. 1. Ingraham “Sentinel”, travel clock/watch, “United / Self Winding”, electric Hula dancer. Made by in folding tri-fold travel case. The watch is new and in United Metal Goods Mfg. Co. It is not metal, but wood. the original box. 2. German alarm clock on brass stand. I don’t know if I have seen this model before. Calling The dial is signed, “Tourist / Seven Jewels”. It is running, her a Hula dancer may be a stretch. More like a Gentle- dial signed, has night viewing hands. $50-$100. men’s, Club dancer. She has no top and very little skirt. She and the Swan are animated and move together. 644. $10 The light burns, clock runs, and dancer does her thing, Miniature cuckoo clock. Very unusual for a miniature all with separate switches. $200-$300. because it has two bellows on top of the 30 hour weight driven movement. The bird moves up and down, not in 637. $21 and out. The case is 9.5 inches high, correct pendulum, Dice game. Insert a nickel and the dice rolls and tumbles weight, chains, hands, and cuckoo. It is operating for a few seconds. No payoff that I am aware of. Holes in properly. $50-$100. the back I guess to get to the coins. Not signed anywhere. The wood case is 15 inches by 10 inches. It operates 641. $10 properly. $25-$100. Two carriage clocks. 1. Ansonia, nickeled case, time and alarm move- ment, bell underneath. Missing side piece and front 638. $21 glass. Signed dial and movement, has the hinged Pair of FDR animated clocks. The dials have differ- metal back door. A very fancy case. 2. Dial signed ent pictures but in both a bartender is shaking a “CCCo”. Nickeled case has the weird chimney on mixed drink. Both will run but need oiling. He had top and may be missing a second one on the other all 2000 clocks running but sitting on a shelf for 30- side. I have never seen that on any carriage clock.

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Fancy one day movement takes special winding keys. I found two “Trade Mark / Tally-Ho / Carriage”. Not running but I be- that will work and put them in the case. It is running, and from the lieve it is an 8 day movement. This clock is not in the Anso- way things go crazy inside the case I suppose the chimney has nia book by Tran Duy Ly. Backwind and set for running something to do with the alarm feature. $50-$100. movement, and an alarm cutoff on top. Underneath is a bright brass bell. There is no place to wind or set an alarm. 646. $21 The dial looks new and it is signed. $25-$50. Promotion Magnetic Balls Clock. The one day movement winds/sets in back, and it is running. The clock comes 611. $21 with a three prong desk stand and the oval backed case Three desk clocks, two animated. 1. Ingraham alarm clock, riding fits into the stand. The clock is 6.5 inches wide. $25-$50. cowboy moves when ticking. Runs, slug- gish. 2. “Aristo Timer” for Basketball/ 647. $21 Football. Needs winding knobs. 3. Smith Same as #646 except this one has on the back the name Alarm clock. Animated chicken pecks when of a company promoting their name. $25-$50. clock running. $25-$50.

648. $21 616. $21 Three car clocks. 1. “Waltham Watch Co./ 8 “Made in England By / F. W. Elliott Ltd. / 15 Jewels”, signed on the 8 days”, signed on the movement. Missing one day balance movement in the nice onyx case. The case is 9 by 5 and hand and the back cover. Dial is 2.75 inches, in nice condition but of course will have a corner beveled glass. Not running. 2. Dial dark, don’t nick or two. The back has a brass removable lid that know if signed. You pull a string on the side to wind. It is running. inserts in the onyx. Key wound movement is run- Dial is 1.75 inches. Note the numerals are on the wood around the ning. The dial and hands are nice, and original, how- glass. 3. “Oldsmobile Car-Watch / Automatic / Made In Switzerland”. ever I suspect it may have had a bubble glass over Dial is 2 inches. Movement looks to float inside the silver case. No the dial originally. No glass now and hands are exposed. $25-$50. glass over the dial. If you wind the movement by turning the rim of the dial I get no results, in other words, not running. $25-$50. 617. $10 Metal decorator clock, has easel back, stands 8.5 inches 649. $21 high. Backwind one day movement is running. Dial and Miniature carriage clock, ca 1900. It is unsigned on the dial hands are perfect. Note sea serpents are the feet. $10-$25. or 3.5 inch brass case. Backwind one day time and alarm movement is running. Two bowed and beveled glasses 618. $21 over porcelain dial. Sits on 4 turned brass feet. Nice little Three animated alarm clocks. 1. “Woody’s novelty clock. $25-$50. Café”. Animated Woody Woodpecker moves when clock ticking. Movement is running, 610. $21 clock generally in good condition. 2. Smith Miniature carriage clock in an ornate cast brass case stand- Alarm, college scene on the dial is very dark. It depicts a professor ing 4 inches high. It is not visibly signed and I judge it to be teaching students to add. The animation is numbers rotating around at least 100 years old. Backwind and set one day move- a blackboard. Movement is running. 3. Lux animated spinning wheel ment is running. Beveled glass over the ornate brass dial alarm clock. Movement is running. Not as nice as the other two surround and porcelain dial ring. $25-$50. clocks. $25-$50.

611. $10 619. $21 “The Western Clock Mfg. Co. LaSalle, Ill.”, novelty clock, Three animated Lux alarm clocks in “as ca 1887. The 9.5 inch high metal case has been repainted. found” condition. Complete and running but There may a tip of something broken off and painted over have been on a shelf for 15-30 years. 1. Animat- but the important parts are all there. Backwind one day ed organ grinder and monkey. Man’s arm movement is running. $50-$100. moves as clock ticks. 2. Organ grinder and bear. Man’s arm moves as clock ticks. 3. Steamboat. Paddle wheel on boat moves. $25-$50. 612. $21 Gilbert Clock Co. animated Charlie McCarthy clock. 660. $21 Backwind and set one day movement is time and Four alarm clocks. L to R. 1. Ingersoll, run- alarm, and is running. The animation is Charlie’s ning, case worn. 2. Westclox Baby Ben, like mouth/jaw moving up and down. The 5 inch square new, running. 3. “Made In Canada”, good case is like new, and is probably not over 50-75 years nickeled case, running. 4. Ingersoll, nickel plated case, black dial, no old. $25-$50. glass over the dial. $25-$50.

613. $21 661. $21 Hour glass in a 7 inch brass case. Top and base have the Four alarm clocks. All are Westclox Big Bens, but varying cases. 1. same cast designs, I to XII numerals and some foreign sym- Black dial with night viewing hands and numerals. Running. 2. Good bols each side of the solid plates. It takes 26 minutes for the condition, running. 3. Complete, shows minor sand or whatever it is, to pass thru. $25-$50. wear, running. 4. Nickeled case, running. $25- $50. 614. $21 Ansonia Clock Co. carriage clock ca 1904. Signed on the back,

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662. $21 Place coin in his hand, push lever in the back and he de- Four Westclox Baby Ben alarm clocks. 1. Hands and numbers coated posits the coin in his mouth. Cast iron figure is 6.5 inches for night viewing. Running. 2. Miniature high. $50-$100. model of the large Ben’s. Broken glass. Run- ning. 3. Nice clean example. Running. 4. 670. $21 Same as No.1, running. $25-$50. “Black Jolly Man without Hat”, mechanical iron bank, ca 1880. The John Harper Co. made the Black Man Bank 663. $50 with a hat and without a hat. They are almost identical Poppo blinking eye owl. Eyes move as pendulum swings. but this one is signed on the back, “Little Joe Bank”. $50 It is a one weight, time only movement, and running. I -$100. cannot say the pendulum and weight are original to the clock, but they appear to be the correct types. The carved 671. $21 wood owl is 11 inches long, not including the pendulum, Mechanical iron bank, ca 1885. Signed on both sides, chain and weight. $50-$100. “Tammany Bank”, and “Ralls Pat’d”, or something similar, not sure. You place a coin in the man’s hand, move his arm 664. $21 to the right and the coin falls into a slot. Paint is worn, it is “Cuckoo Clock Mfg. Co. Germany”, signed on this small two operational. 6 inches high. $50-$100. weight clock movement. We believe it to be original with the possible exception of the weights. No way to verify that. One 672. $21 hand is missing. $25-$50. Hour Glass, 10.5 inches tall brass case, unsigned. $25-$50.

661. $200 673. $21 German Black Forest blinking eye cuckoo clock, ca Five car clocks. Not sure if any are running. 1880. They made a great many of this model and Some missing crystals. LtoR. 1. Oldsmobile, 8 featured different people behind the porcelain dial. day, did not test. 2. Swiss made for a Detroit, This female figure seems to have been the one most Michigan company. Did not test, has no crystal. 3. Waltham, 8 day, produced. We have seen others with a male figure. did not test. 4. Swiss made, 8 day, has US Patent. 5. Westclox, did The clock movement is a cuckoo type but much not test. $25-$50. more elaborate case. It has chains for two cuckoo weights, a cuckoo bird at the top that comes out on 674. $21 the hours, and the blinking eyes that move with the pendulum. The German fancy novelty clock. The dial is signed, “Winette”, a porcelain dial, hands, long pendulum, and chains all appear to be name used by the Mauthe company in Germany. The metal original. I cannot vouch for the weights being original. The move- and onyx case is 11 inches tall, very ornate columns and ment is running but may get out of beat during shipment. The wood other castings. Possibly has an 8 day movement and is run- case is 15 inches high but with the pendulum and weights in place it ning. $25-$50. might reach 6 feet high. $250-$500. 671. $21 666. $21 Three desk/mantel clocks. L to R. 1. Green painted metal case is 5.5 Mechanical Artillery Bank, ca 1892. The soldier fires inches high, backwind movement is running. Dial signed, “Fashion the cannon that shoots the coin into the bank. This Alarm / Made in USA”. 2. Lux Clock Co. metal case bank is most times referred to as the “Confederate is 6 inches high, not running. 3. Onyx case is 9 Artillery Bank” because the soldier is wearing red inches high, backwind movement is running. Not and gray. The cast iron case is signed by the cannon, signed. $25-$50. “Artillery Bank”. The patent date is stamped underneath. It is 8 inches wide, 6 inches high. $50-$100. 676. $21 Three animated alarm clocks. 1. Charlie McCarthy alarm clock by the 667. $21 Gilbert Clock Co. and licensed by Edgar Bergen. Mechanical toy bank, ca 1888. Patent date cast underneath, if Running. His mouth moves. 2.”Who’s Afraid of signed it would be inside the base. Key lock underneath, no key. The the Big Bad Wolfe”, alarm clock by Ingersol. His silver iron case has lost a good deal of the original head moves up and down. Running. 3. Spinning finish. Apparently the large mother bird bends and Wheel alarm clock by Waterbury. Running. Spinning wheel rotates. appears to be feeding the baby birds but actually $25-$50. the coil would drop thru a slot. 8 inches wide, 6 inches high. $50-$100. 677. $21 Three animated alarm clocks. 1. Ingraham. 668. $21 “Horse and Cowboy”. Horse gallops with tick- Mechanical “Foot Ball” bank, ca 1890. There are ing. It is running. 2. Waterbury “Organ Grinder”. three moving players but I cannot figure out what His arm moves to grind the organ. Running. 3. Waterbury “Spinning they have to do with money dropping thru the coin Wheel”. Wheel turns with ticking. Running. $25-$50 slot. It is 7 inches wide and 6 inches high. Paint is badly worn on all the iron parts. $50-$100. 678. $21 Three animated alarm clocks. 1. “Early Bird” gets 669. $21 the worm. Bird rock back and forth pulling “Black Jolly Man with Top Hat”, mechanical iron bank, ca 1880. worm out of the ground. Running. 2. Ingraham.

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“Bugs Bunny”. Arm moves to feed himself a carrot. Running. 3. page 50. $50-$100. Mickey Mouse, not animated, but his hands tell the time. Running. $25-$50. 688. $21 European Bakers clock, wood bezel and dial, original 679. $21 hands. Dial signed, “Brinkle Bro’s”. No glass in the Three alarm clocks. 1. Lux Clock Co., nice scene brass sash, no pendulum, bell on top, weight, or chain. on face, running. 2. Ingersoll, Mickey Mouse Wood movement plates, brass gears. $25-$50. face, his hands show the time, running. 3. In- graham, Bugs Bunny dial. His hand moves carrot to his mouth as 701. $21 clock ticks. Running. $25-$50. Swiss paperweight clock. Dial signed, “Soldiers Watch / Swiss Made / 781”. Movement marked, “Seventeen / 17 680. $10 Jewels”. It has a broken mainspring. $25-$50. Misc. clock and watches. The copper colored Ansonia alarm clock is heavy, and is running. The 702. $21 round brass thing is some kind of alarm. You Travel clock in folding leather, hinged case. The 8 day turn the top to wind it. There are five misc. wrist movement is signed, “Rigeldinger / Switzerland / 18 Jew- watches and some junk. els / 2 adjustments”. This is just a clock, no alarm. $25- $50. 681. $21 Four clock ornaments/statues. No damage or 703. $21 missing parts, all have a good finish. Between 6 New Haven Clock Co. new auto clock in original box, ca and 8 inches tall. $25-$50. 1930’s. It is 30 hour, pull wind. Its official name on the box is, “79 AV Header Board Clock”. I pulled and it started run- 682. $300 ning. The idea is to mount it on your automobile dash. Orig- Dungan & Klump, Dickory Dickory Dock “Mouse Clock”, ca inal label on the box, and sold new for $2.45. This is a first 1910. The partners made five different models of their for me, very unusual. Clock is 2.5 inches square. $25-$50. mouse clock and there were even further variations within the five models. They were always tinkering trying to im- 704. $1 prove and figure the best way to get them sold. This case New Haven Clock Co. advertising clock for “First Federal was finished with mahogany stain and only a few hundred Savings” etc. Patterson, NJ. Advertising is printed on were made, making them quite rare. Model III was never cloth attached to the metal case. Cloth is wearing, print- made because of a poor relationship between them and ing hard to read. Backwind one day movement is run- the New Haven Clock Co. that made their movements. ning. Case is 5 inches tall. $5-$10. Model IV was made by the Sessions Clock Company. Our Model II strikes the bell on the hours. The mouse moves up 701. $21 the clock until the clock strikes one, at which time the “Poppo – Made In Japan”, moving eye clock. The wood mouse slides down with a loud thud. The clock appears to case is 6 inches tall, has slight wear but is original and be all original except for the small top piece. $500-$1000. complete. Backwind one day movement is running and eyes are moving side to side. Silver bezel, flat glass, good 683. $21 signed dial. $25-$50. Three talking alarm clocks, quartz movements, most about 9 by 9 inches, and working. I researched them and found all selling on 706. $21 EBay and other places between $50 and “Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co. / Buffalo, N.Y. U.S. $100 each. This collector bought anything A.”, written on the dial and the thing on top of the nickel mechanical, new or old, cheap or expen- plated case. I wish I could explain what those things are sive. Great for children’s room. $25-$50. on top of the case. Clock evidently made by the Monitor Clock Co. of New York. The case is 5 inches tall not includ- 684. $21 ing the crowbar looking thing. Backwind and set one day Three talking alarm clocks. $25-$50. movement is running. $25-$50.

681. $21 707. $10 Three talking alarm clocks. $25-$50. Ansonia Clock Co. cast copper case, Art Deco style. Cop- per case/dial needs to be cleaned. One day backwind 686. $21 movement is running. Case is 4.5 inches tall. $10-$25. Three talking alarm clocks and two fun clocks. $25-$50. 708. $10 Gold plated miniature tambour clock and bank. Slot in 687. $21 back for coins, key lock underneath the case but no Seth Thomas “Owl Alarm”, ca 1915. I have sold several similar ST key. Dial signed, “Made in USA”. Backwind one day alarms, “Long Alarm” in various case styles, but this movement is running. Case is 7 inches wide and 3.5 inches high. $10- case is the first I have seen. The major difference is the 4 $25. spikes around the sash. It is complete and original but did not run when I wound it. Unusual for all of this col- 709. $10 lectors clocks were in running order. Ly-Seth Thomas, E. N. Welch double sided, nickel plated seashell case. Dial signed

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“Welch”. Backwind one day time only movement is run- Dog Watch, Mid Watch, etc. Not running. 2. Westclox ning. Case is 3.5 inches high. $10-$25. Pocket Ben. It is running. 3. Westclox Pocket Ben, not running. 4. Ingraham wrist watch, not running. $5 710. $10 “Joslin’s Eclipse Time Stamp” signed on the dial of this time 720. $1 stamp clock, ca 1919. Case is cast aluminum and stands 4 Ansonia Clock Co. alarm clock with advertising on the dial inches high. Backwind one day movement is running. $10- for, “Peters Shoes”. Brass colored metal case is 4 inches $20. tall, clean, original, and complete. Backwind one day movement is running. $5 711. $10 New Haven Clock Co. dresser clock mounted in a Lucite 721. $1 case standing 4.5 inches high. The backwind time only Ansonia Clock Co. desk clock, “Square Rascal”. Case is 4 movement is running. Easel stand in back. Dial is signed inches tall, has a gold crinkled finish, and has a beveled two places by New Haven. $10-$25. glass and signed dial. Backwind movement is running. $5

712. $10 722. $1 Waltham 8 day Partners desk clock. Dials on both sides, Ansonia Clock Co. alarm clock. Nickel-plated case is 5.5 one 8 day time only movement, and it is not running. inches tall, clean and complete. Signed dial, backwind Dials are signed. Chrome case is 5.5 inches wide, 4 inch- movement is running. $5 es high. $10-$25. 723. $10 713. $21 Ansonia Clock Co. alarm clock, “Rouser”. Brass case is 8 Seth Thomas metal novelty clock, “Nutmeg”, ca 1876. inches tall. Backwind movement is running. $10 This is a very early model of their one day lever front desk clock. They also made it with an alarm. This one 724. $21 was made to wall hang or sit on desk. The 4.5 inch case Parker Rotary Alarm clock, ca early 1900’s. Shiny is brass with a wood back. It winds and sets in back and brass case is near perfect with alarm movement instructions are carved in the wood. The dial is signed. The move- underneath the case and alarm bells each side of ment is running. Ly-Seth Thomas #2154. $25-$50. the time only clock movement. Dial is signed. The case is 6.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches high. Move- 714. $10 ments are running. $25-$50. E. Ingraham alarm clock, “Challenge”. Clock is like new, may be, or just taken care of, or lived in a box for years. 721. $21 Signed on the front. Clock is running and performing Ansonia Clock Co. carriage clock, “Pert”, ca 1904. Only 5 inches tall alarm functions properly. $10-$25. but contains everything the big boys have. The nickel case shows very little wear, only on the right side edge, that 711. $1 from handling. The movement is running strong, and has Lux Clock Co. alarm clock, “Aldine”. Black and chrome an alarm feature striking a nickel bell underneath. It is a art deco clock, 4.5 inches tall. Hands and numbers one day movement. On the back is a latching door with coated for night viewing. Backwind and set move- winding key on the back of the door. The movement and dial are ment, alarm shut off on top. Not running. $5 both signed. $25-$50.

716. $1 726. $21 Lux Clock Co. square advertising clock. Purple glass Ansonia Clock Co. novelty clock, “Bee”, ca 1906. Great case is 3 inches square, small chip on a back corner, little desk clock, only 3 inches high and a near perfect has advertising on the dial, “James Davis / Washable gilt finish on the round case. It has a beveled glass and a Wall Paper / Chicago”. Backwind one day movement is signed dial. You wind the one day movement by turning running. $5-$25. the back, and it is running. $25-$50.

717. $10 727. $21 E. N. Welch desk clock. The silver case is almost 4 inches “Made by the Parker Clock Co. Meriden, Conn.”, alarm clock, ca 1911 high, has nice dial and three hands, and backwind one and so marked on the gold gilt case. It stands 5 inches day movement. Signed on the back. Not running, broken high, in an octagon shape with beading all around the spring. $10-$25. front. Dial signed by the maker and by a retailer, “A. Saunders / Sydney.” It was running when I unpacked it, 718. $10 but now it is not? All of this collectors alarm clocks were Ansonia Clock Co. small bedside clock in silver case running when they came to me. $25-$50. standing 3 inches high. Excellent overall condition, bev- eled glass, porcelain dial, three hands, and signed on the 728. $21 dial. One day backwind movement ticks and stops. $10- Parker Alarm Clock “Maine”, ca 1910. Time movement in $25. tin can atop the base containing the alarm movement. Bell and winding crank for the alarm are in the base, 719. $1 alarm set and time winding knob are on the back of the Four watches. 1. Naval watch with dial indicating various watches, tin can. The movements are running. The nickel plated

55 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures case is 6.5 inches high. $25-$50. Some have fallen off so the others should come off easily. The dial has deteriorated but is all there. The calendar ring is darker than the 729. $21 time ring and evidently the dial decorator has done some paint Seth Thomas “Long Alarm”, ca 1906. 9 inch high metal case is nickel touchup also. I believe the glass over the dial is a replacement. The plated, finish is very good and complete. The one day pendulum, hands, latches, brass rings and bezel are all original. It time and alarm movement winds and set on the back seems to be operating properly. Ly-Gilbert #189. $200-$300. and is running fine. The dial is signed and original with two subsidiary dials and hands, seconds and alarm. It 738. $10 is called “Long Alarm” for a reason. It will ring about 15 5 alarm clocks, did not test. 1. Western Clock – minutes with one winding, and it is loud. You would “Alternating”. 2. Waterbury – “Turnout”. have to be dead to not hear it. Ly-Seth Thomas, page 3. Waterbury – “Thrift”. 4. Waterbury – “Wasp”. 51. $25-$50. 5. Westclox – “Travel Alarm”. $25-$50.

730. $21 739. $21 Parker Hotel Alarm clock, “Call-Me”, ca 1918. Alarm bell “Schatz / Germany”, ships bell clock mounted in a ships underneath the case and battery in opening above the wheel. Made by, “Aug. Schatz & Sohne / Germany”. bell. The wood case is 10.5 inches tall and in fair condi- Clock is running and striking ships bells on half hours, tion. Bowed glass over the nice dial and hands. $25-$50. can be turned off on the back. Bowed and beveled glass, latching silver bezel, signed dial, and original 731. $21 hands. Clock like new, and is probably not over 50 years Seth Thomas “Long Alarm, ca 1906. Same as #729 ex- old. $50-$100. cept case is copper plated and tarnished. Dial is spotted but case is good condition and running fine. $25-$50. 740. $10 3 alarm clocks, did not test. 1. Made in USA – bank 732. $21 and alarm, key lock on back, no key. 2. Seth Thom- “Made By Darche Mfg. Co. Chicago”, ca 1901. Bank alarm clock with as – “Severn”, label on the base. 3. Made in France a good nickel finish. Square dial is signed, slightly – “Tapageur”. $25-$50. stained, correct hands. Light bulb above the dial. The movement winds in back and is running fine. 741. $10 The case is 13 inches wide and 8 inches high. $25- 4 unusual alarm clocks, did not test. 1. $50. “Ward’s Old Reliable”, running. 2. New Ha- ven – “True Time Tellers Tick Tock”. 3. New 733. $21 Haven – “The Automatic”. 4. New Haven – Seth Thomas “Long Alarm”, ca 1906. Same as #729 and “Intermittent”. $25-$50. #731, nickel case now tarnished and has a split in the top. Dial is spotted, runs fine. $25-$50. 742. $21 3 unusual alarm clocks. 1. I cannot identify although I believe it is 734. $100 USA made. It has many problems, i.e. alarm hand, Miniature Grandfather clock with battery movement. Wood broken alarm spring, etc. 2. New Haven – “The case is 24 inches high, inlaid or painted designs over the Junior Tattoo Alarm”, running. 3. Lux – “Spinning front. Two doors in front open to felt lined jewelry boxes Wheel Alarm Clock”, never used, new in the origi- with some hooks to hang stuff. There is one storage place nal box. $25-$50. on the back with hooks. The clock is running and keeping good time. Would make a great gift. $100-$200. 743. $21 Russian Submarine Clock, brand new in the original box. 731. $21 Bought 1992 for $69.95. Signed on the dial, in Russian of “Huber / Uhren / Germany”, 400 day clock. Running, course. Has original instruction book in Russian, some will need to be reassembled. Two nice alarm clocks. $25- English. It says, “intended for indicating running time in $50. hours, minutes and seconds aboard sea-going and river ships”. $25- $50. 736. $21 Group of mini Westclox Baby Bens and some 744. $10 folding travel alarm clocks. Some are running, “U.S. Army Clock, Message Center, M2”, imprinted on but I did not test them all. $25-$50. the dial. Clock is mounted in the original wood carrying box with latches and leather hand straps. One winding 737. $100 arbor, 4 hands. It is running but I do not understand its Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Co., calendar clock, “Regulator A”, ca 1902. The operational purpose. $50-$100. 31 inch high oak case has the original finish, darkened over time but not overly. Has a good rich look, proba- bly with some light cleaning and polish on a regular basis. The decal on the lower glass looks nice but I do not see it pictured in the Gilbert books. Also someone has added some small stick on stars on the dial be- tween the Roman numerals and a flag in the center.

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741. $100 711. $200 “One Hand Clock Co., Warren, Pa. U.S.A.” signed on the French mantel clock with Egyptian motif, ca 1890. 8 day 6.5 inch dial of this ca 1930 novelty clock. They made this round movement made and signed by “Japy Freres”, clock in 3 sizes that I am aware of, a 9 inch dial and the typical French movement with bell attached and strik- largest being 12 inch. The old stand and bezel still has ing hours and half hours. The metal case is 15.5 inches some brass patina, but showing age and wear. The pa- high, complete and retains a good finish that I suspect per dial is in nice condition, only slightly stained. The movement is not original but definitely professionally redone. winds and sets in back. It is running. $150-$300. Some applied metal ornaments are a shade toward bronze while the basic case is darker. Large beveled glass over the metal dial. 746. $21 Note the round porcelain cartouche numerals and good brass “Follett Time Recording Co. / New York U.S.A. / Patent- hands. A very nice looking clock, a little different than we normally ed and Patents Pending”, on the small glass covered sell. $250-$500. metal dial. Key wind in the back. Lots of complicated stuff inside the metal box. $25-$50. 712. $10 German “Wag on Wall”, ca 1860. It has cuckoo weights, a brass pen- 747. $310 dulum, brass hands and a beaten copper/brass dial. Ansonia Clock Company porcelain case clock, “Wichita”, ca 1904. Numerals are etched on the front, designs and logo The porcelain clock is 11.5” tall, and decorated primarily with the stamped from the back. The logo says, “Why Then collectable flow blue colors. On the back is the Wichita Tis Time To Do It”. Evidently it is a German proverb. name, fired in the clay. The movement is eight day, Dial apparently painted black or has blackened over time and strikes on a gong. It is perfect, has no breaks, time. The 30 hour movement has brass wheels in- cracks, or hairlines other than normal aging. It has a side a wood box with bell on top. Everything is brass sash with beveled glass, a signed porcelain dial, quite nice, has no damage but evidently there were and the correct hands. The clock is complete and all side covers over the movement originally. It is running and striking original, movement is sound, running and striking on properly. $50-$100. cue. It has the correct metal cover over the back movement open- ing, and a correct pendulum bob. We have only sold a couple of this 714. $110 model over the years and it is not pictured in Ly-Ansonia. $400-600. “Patent Brass / Eight-Day / Clocks / Manufactured By / Birge, Mallory & Co. / Bristol, Conn.”, ca 1838- 748. $210 1843. A triple decker 8 day clock, has two doors and French paperweight or glass ball desk clock, ca about 1900. The one a middle stationary glass. The mahogany veneered day movement is very sluggish, doubtful it has ever been serviced. case has full columns; an old splat, only one return, The dial is signed but very faint. It is partly, “Wm W-- & has most of original graining on columns, but overall Son”. The ball is 2.75 inches in diameter. Next to the wind- is in need of restoration. We believe the three old ing stem is a small lever you push in, allowing you to turn glasses are replacements. The veneer and finish on the wind stem that moves the hands. It has three original the 38” high mahogany veneered case is good, but in hands and a seconds dial. $250-$4000. need of minor repairs. Excellent wood dial, period steel hands, missing both weights, bob, and key for 749. $200 door locks. Doors have brass escutcheons and work- “E. N. Welch Mfg. Co., Forestville, Conn. U.S.A.”, round ing locks. A paper label inside covers most of the backboard and is gothic mantel clock, ca 1872. Collectors refer to this mod- in good condition. Strap brass 8 day movement has a side arm ex- el as a “beehive” case, the reason is obvious. This nice tension, and is signed, “B M & Co.”. The weight cords are good, rosewood veneered case is 18.5 inches high with very pulleys intact; movement mounted to slide in wood seat board, and nice veneer all over. Old glasses but tablet probably a has a coil gong. We did not test for running but the movement is replacement. Complete inside label, original dial has aged complete. The case and movement should be restored, and checked and crinkled with some numbers enhanced. Hands and pendulums for running. This is a good example of the early triple decker clocks. are always an unknown. The 8 day movement is running and strik- $200-$350. ing hours on a coil gong. Ly-Welch, page 456. $250-$400. 711. $100 “Chauncey Boardman and Joseph A. Wells, / Bristol, Conn.”, looking 710. $310 glass column and splat clock, ca 1832-1843. This mahogany veneered Seth Thomas crystal regulator, “Empire No.23”, ca case is 32” tall, the finish is original, and shows no evidence of re- 1913. Metal case is 11.5 inches tall, originally had a “rich cent restoration. There is no stenciling on the half gold finish” per they catalogs. Now is slightly worn, columns and splat. The veneer is most intact except light soap and water would help but not a rubbed for some chips on the base board. A miracle that it is cleaning. The base is concave and the top has a slight so nice and is 180 years old. Both glasses are replace- peak. Four beveled glasses, all perfect, no corner ments and the top glass is broken. There is a key lock chips which is a surprise. The two jar imitation mercu- in the door but the escutcheon has been replaced ry pendulum is correct and perfect. Inside is a hanging with a wood knob. It has an excellent wood dial, Cathedral gong and a signed round 8 day movement period steel hands and has no weights or pendulum. that is running and striking half hours and hours. It has a perfect The 30 hour wood movement is a Terry style, clean four inch porcelain dial that is signed and has the correct hands. Ly- and complete. I did not test the movement for run- Seth Thomas #747. $400-$600. ning. $100-$200.

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716. $71 veneer missing on the bottom board and a chip by the door lock, “Chauncey Jerome, / Bristol, Conn.”, ogee case with otherwise the veneer is clean, polished, and looks great. The glasses 30 hour brass movement, ca 1843. The rosewood are now held with wood strips so we assume they have been re- veneered case is nice, and shows really well as rose- placed. The door lock has been replaced with a turn latch and the wood usually does. The old label is near complete, lock is still in the door. The label with the important information is the metal dial is original with only minor fading, and still intact, about 75% remaining. The 30 hour wood movement is the brass movement is not signed. Both glasses are complete, operational, has good weight cords, pulleys, etc. There original with old putty, and only minor flaking on the are no weights or brass pendulum bob. The wood dial is very nice bottom painting. The rosewood veneered case is 26” high, and and there is a pair of period hands. $300-$500. overall has very good veneer with a sliver chipped off on the upper right corner. There is a door latch, coil gong, has no weights or 760. $100 brass pendulum bob, and a pair of old hands. $75-$150. “Patent Clocks Invented By Eli Terry, Made and Sold at Plymouth, Connecticut by M. & E. Blakeslee”, col- 717. $200 umn and splat case, ca 1832. In that same year they “Birge, Mallory & Co., Bristol. Conn.”, triple deck were reported to have made clocks at Heathenville, shelf clock, ca 1844-1848. Tablets are replacements, Conn. Columns are stenciled, top appears to just be the top glass has original putty. There are not many painted, not stenciled. The mahogany veneered case apologies to make for this clock, the strap brass 8 is 32 inches tall, veneer is rough on the bottom day movement is signed by the makers, it has old board, one return missing, the other has a chip. One hands, and the good wood dial has possibly been chimney cap is chipped the other is good. There is a touched up or repainted. There are no iron weights brass escutcheon, door lock but no key. The top or pendulum bob. There are door locks and a key. glass is missing; the bottom glass is a replacement with a paper Only a partial paper label remains inside. Several picture backing. It has a good label, very good wood dial, old hands, small label pieces we saved are in an envelope if you iron bell, but no weights or pendulum. The wood movement is origi- care to work the puzzle. You should always check the weight cords nal but needs the weight cords restrung. I did not realize this maker before hanging the heavy iron weights. The mahogany veneered was so rare until I began researching clocks made by the brothers. case is 36” high, has good veneer with a few chips and some re- There are just no sales anywhere that I can find. $100-$200. pairs. The full columns have original stain. As you can see the strap brass movement is bright and clean, has good weight cords, and the 761. $10 original coil gong and base. This clock is much nicer than I gave it “Improved Brass Clocks, Manufactured and Sold by, H. Welton & Co. credit for. The case is large, heavy, and makes a very good appear- The Old Stand of Eli Terry & Co., Terrysville, Conn.”, OG clock, ca ance. $250-$500. 1840. This label is different from any other recorded labels found on their clocks. The Co. is comprised of brothers Heman and Hiram. The 718. $100 mahogany veneered OG case is 27 inches tall, has a “Manufactured by T. M. Roberts, Bristol, Conn. for E. turn latch on the door, original top glass, replaced C. Brewster”, column and splat shelf clock, ca 1831- bottom glass with paper picture. Some veneer re- 1837. Made wooden shelf clock movements and some pairs made, others need to be made. Inside is a near clocks for Brewster, Henry Hart, and others. This is a complete label, coil gong, 30 hour brass movement pretty rare clock and I believe the only one I have had with weight cords and pulleys. It has an old wood by this maker. The mahogany veneered case is 33 dial and period hands but no weights or pendulum inches high and retains the original finish all over, bob. This maker is not real common for I have only however the half columns and the splat are very dark sold a couple of their clocks over the years. $75-$150. which makes it difficult to see any stenciling. The ve- neer is pretty good but as usual there are a few minor chips. The 762. $121 chimneys and returns are complete; there is a door lock but no es- “Ephraim Downs, Bristol, Conn.”, column and splat cutcheon or key. As you can see there is no paint on the lower glass shelf clock, ca 1825. He made clocks for himself and and it is a replacement. The upper glass retains the original putty several others until 1845. Unlike most clock makers and it has a small corner break. It has a good wood dial, old hands, he survived the 1836 recession while many others good 30 hour wood movement, and an old coil gong. The label is failed. This mahogany veneered case has the original complete but there are no weights or a pendulum. Like others in columns and splat with stenciling visible on the splat this small collection of wood movement clocks, it needs to be re- and barely on the columns. The lower glass is origi- stored. $150-$250. nal, now with a paper portrait as backing. There is an ivory escutcheon and door lock, but no key. Inside is 719. $300 a wood dial, period hands, long drop 30 hour wood “Modern Improved Clocks Made By Riley Whiting, Winchester, movement, and weight cords on pulleys. It strikes hours on an iron Conn.”, early 30 hour carved case wooden movement bell. The label is excellent with hardly any loss. The dial and support shelf clock, ca 1829. This style case was used with strip holes align. $150-$250. brass as well as wood movements, sometimes they put a glass panel in the center with advertising or 763. $200 other designs. This large (large for a 30 hour) carved “Marshall & Adams / Seneca Falls, N. Y.”, ca 1834. (Chauncey Mar- case is 35” high, and has a carved pineapple splat and shall and Elmer Adams) Marshall seemed to furnish the money and carved columns. The splat has some loss on the top Adams made the clocks. Adams bought out Marshall in 1836. Soon and a repaired crack. The chimneys, returns, and caps after Marshall filed for bankruptcy and committed suicide. Double are in excellent condition. I see one small piece of deck style column and splat mahogany veneered case is 33.5” high.

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Veneer is figured mahogany on the case, the splat, patented April 14, 1857, by Noble Jerome, move- chimneys, and returns. There are half columns on ment by A. S. Platt, case made and sold by Water- each side of the door. The glasses are not original to bury Clock Co. Waterbury hired Noble, the younger the clock, the bottom glass with a transfer added brother of Chauncey Jerome to set up a movement reflecting the style used by this company on some of shop for them. He either made or patented this their clocks, curtain tablets. The door has an ivory clock before he came to Waterbury or shortly after. escutcheon and a key lock but no key. Inside there is Platt was a clockmaker and movement maker in the a very nice label, a coil gong, and a Connecticut wood Bristol area and made this movement for Noble 30 hour movement. There are no iron weights or a Jerome. The 27 inch case is very unusual and in near brass bob. There is a wood dial with some stretch perfect condition. The only blemish I see is a missing marks on the upper half, and a pair of old hands. The weight cords cap on the left chimney. I will call the wood rosewood or walnut but will need to be put over the spools on top. Overall the clock is in I could be way off, but it certainly is an unusual clock. The brass 30 very good condition, especially for a clock pushing 200 years old. hour movement is signed by Waterbury is clean and running with References: “The Contribution of Joseph Ives to Connecticut Clock two iron weights powering. This clock also has an alarm that rings Technology, 1810-1862”, by Kenneth D. Roberts, Revised Second on a brass bell while the running movement strikes on a coil gong. It Edition, pages 158-159. $250-$500. has a pair of iron weights and a painted metal dial. Ly-Waterbury, page 402, pictures the smaller spring driven version as described in 764. $121 #768. $200-$350. “Henry C. Smith, / Plymouth, Conn.”, ca 1833-1845. Column and splat wood works shelf clock is clean and 768. $100 typical of the small shelf clock collection we have “Waterbury Clock Co. Waterbury, Conn.”, spring been listing starting with #754. Not to say he did not driven shelf clock, patented April 14, 1857. Label put in a replaced glass if it needed one, but practically is identical to the label pictured in #767. Move- all of his clocks are by rare makers. The mirror glass is ment of course is different than the weight driv- bad and you may want to replace. There is a brass en movement. I have pictured both clocks to- escutcheon and door lock, but no key. There is a nice gether to give you an idea of the similarities and wood dial, period hands, but no iron weights or pen- the differences. This case is 21 inches tall and I dulum. Most of the paper label is intact, top glass is old, and there is believe to be rosewood. This case is also near perfect but a little paint on the half columns, the splat and the chimneys and returns. darker than #767. It appears to be identical to the clock, movement, The thirty hour wood movement is complete and operable, striking and label, pictured on page #402, Ly-Waterbury. $100-$200. on a replaced wire gong. $150-$250. 769. $300 761. $200 “Invented by Eli Terry, Made and Sold at Plymouth, Connecticut, by “Asaph Hall, Goshen, Conn.”, short drop column and Henry Terry”, pillar and splat shelf clock with 30 splat, ca 1830-1837. The complete label in the case hour time, strike, and alarm, 3 weight wood move- says that the 30 hour wood movement has ivory ment, ca 1832. We have seen an identical clock bushings. The movement has a 42 teeth escape signed, “Henry Terry & Co.”, made in 1835. The 28 wheel, is complete and operational with weight inch high mahogany veneered case has been cords hung on rollers on top of the case. It strikes on cleaned. Veneer has a couple of chips on the base a coil gong. There is a colorful wood dial and pair of and around the mirror on top. The door is held in period hands. There are no weights or a pendulum. place with 2 nails acting as hinges, which is common The original upper glass is wavy and has original put- on these early clocks. The nail on the top right of the ty while the lower glass is a replacement with a transfer. We cannot door popped out the veneer so nothing is holding say the four feet underneath are original but have no reason to the door in place except the bottom nail. The top door glass is origi- suspect they are not. The mahogany veneered case is 28 inches tall, nal and all the mirrors may be replacements. There is a brass es- not perfect but has no noticeably bad veneer. There are a few small cutcheon, door lock, but no key. The label has some loss but im- chips on the veneer, capitals, returns, and splat. The columns and portant particulars are intact. The clock and alarm sounds on the splat have original stenciling although dark. This is a very rare maker same large bell. Good wood dial is slightly faded but clean, and who went on to become a clock peddler in Georgia. $250-$350. hands are period. There are two iron weights and a replacement alarm weight. Some restoration is needed before putting the clock 766. $10 in operation; weight cords restrung and install a suspension. The “Ansonia Brass & Copper Company – Gothic Gem”, ca case may have had feet originally and the top appears to have new 1869. The mahogany veneered case is 18.5 inches high, wood. $300-$500. retaining the original finish, now dark and a little crusty. Some veneer chips and separation but only on 770. $221 the door sections. Original glasses, door knob, painted “Wm. L. Gilbert Clock Company / Manufactory, Win- metal dial, gong, and pendulum. The dial is faded and sted, Conn.”, rare weight powered shelf clock, not aged seriously. There is a partial label inside. The found in the Gilbert catalogs or Tran Duy Ly books, ca movement is ticking and running as I write this howev- 1850. The beautiful rosewood veneered case is 31.5 er I did not check it for length of running. Ly-Ansonia #1710. $75- inches tall and for all practical purposes is one of $150. their OG cases with a splat top. Everything is original and in very nice condition. Glasses, door latch, 30 767. $200 hour brass movement, painted metal dial, hands, “Waterbury Clock Co. Waterbury, Conn.”, weight driven shelf clock, pendulum, gong and base, and pair of iron weights,

59 Horton’s Antique Clocks – September 8671 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures are all original stock for this clock. They don’t come any nicer than condition. Probably cleaned and polished at one time but is good this one. $250-$400. enough to keep if I only had some room. This case style preceded the OG and many other more popular 771. $200 ST models, and very few were made. I may have “Atkins & Porter, Bristol, Conn.”, rare ca 1840 30- seen two in my 45 years of selling. This clock is not hour Cornice with original mirror and stenciling perfect for if you look real close with a magnifying around the dial, and the movement with count glass you might see a corner nick somewhere, and wheel with half hour strike in the center back to yes there is a small amount of paint loss on the tab- avoid the Jerome patent. (Copied from “The Clocks let. This one is definitely a keeper for I have never of Irenus Atkins” by Gregory and King) Our clock is seen a nicer clock from that era. The glasses, applied identical to the one pictured on page 29 of the emblem, and even the finials, are original. The exam- above mentioned book. The rosewood veneered ples of this clock pictured in Ly-Seth Thomas, pages case is 23.5” high, case side are reverse OG, in other 680-681, are admittedly replacements. I notice that the model with words, higher at the door than at the sides. Good veneer but some an alarm has the large dial opening, but so does the model with no repairs around the door latch and a chip on the top left of the door. alarm, like this one. The 30 hour movement is signed, strikes a coil The door latch, painted metal dial, pair of old hands, pair of old iron gong, and has an excellent wood dial, a pair of iron weights, and a weights, old pendulum, coil gong, and brass movement as previous- very nice paper label. On a scale of 1 to 10, it is a 10. $250-$500. ly described, are all original to the case. The paper label has some loss in the weight chutes and in the bottom, important parts are 771. $200 intact. Identical case, movement and label are pictured and de- “Forbes & Tucker, Concord, N.H.”, shelf clock, ca scribed in, “The Clocks of Irenus Atkins”, by Gregory and King, page 1840. They made some cases and bought brass and 29. $25-$400. wood movements from Conn. makers. They were more like dealers than clockmakers. Both probably 772. $271 sold clocks under their own name while they were “Chauncey Jerome, New Haven, Conn.”, miniature partners. The unusual mahogany veneered case is 29 triple decker empire style mantel clock, ca 1843. Je- inches tall, compete and original but a little rough in rome made several variations of this case, i.e. full spots. There are a few veneer chips and loose mold- size 8 day, hollow column, full column, true triple ings on the cornice top. The case front is angled 45 deck, etc. This case is 27.5 inches tall, beautiful rose- degrees and all surfaces are flat. It has old glasses, door latch, and a wood veneer, three glasses, two door latches, and pair of old iron weights. The wood dial is very nice, hands and pen- solid half columns made of a slightly lighter shade of dulum are period, has a complete label and a 30 hour wood move- rosewood or similar wood. All the glasses may be ment. If you collect unusual clock makers you will want this one. replacements but they did install old glass. The 30 $200-$300. hour brass movement is signed, “Chauncey Jerome, New Haven, Conn. U.S.A.”. The previous collector said this was an 8 day move- 776. $300 ment but I counted only 40 teeth and a normal 8 day weight will not “E. Terry & Sons, Plymouth, Connecticut”, stenciled go in the weight chutes. The label is half gong, coil gong remains, column and splat short drop clock, ca 1823-1831. Eli metal dial may be from another clock, and there is a pair of old iron Terry, Sr. was partners with his sons, Eli Terry, Jr. and weights. This case and many similar cases are pictured on page 70 Henry Terry, producing 30 hour wood shelf clocks. of the NAWCC Bulletin Supplement #15, “From Rags To Riches To The 29 inch mahogany veneered case has stenciled Rags / The Story of Chauncey Jerome”. $300-$500. quarter columns, paw feet, two original glasses, splat with no visible stenciling that may not be original to 773. $100 the clock. There is a door lock but no escutcheon and “Daniel Pratt, Jr. / Reading, Mass.”, looking glass shelf clock with 30 good chimneys and returns. Inside is a good label, hour wood movement, ca 1832-1835. He used Chauncey Jerome’s 30 very good wood dial and period hands, old pendulum bob, pair of 30 hour groaner type overhead striking movement. The bell is on top hour iron weights, and a Terry wood movement. $300-$500. of the case. Pratt made other models with the bell on top, some with an alarm striking on the bell. The label is complete and intact. 777. $110 Note the label is identical to labels used by Jerome, Pratt & Frost, “J. C. Brown / Bristol, Conn. / Forestville Manufactur- Daniel Pratt & Sons, and no doubt other Pratt busi- ing Company”, beehive cased clock, ca 1848. Mahoga- nesses. The top glass is original, the mirror a replace- ny veneered case is 19 inches tall, has very good ve- ment. The weights, hands, and pendulum all are peri- neer all over with no big problems or repairs. Bottom od and probably original to the clock. The wood dial tablet is original, upper glass replaced but they did a is near perfect but I doubt it came with this clock. The super putty job, almost passes for original. Complete rosewood (or mahogany) veneered case is 34” tall, paper label inside, replaced metal dial pan, and old flat columns, splat and no chimneys or returns. The hands. No pendulum bob with this clock. The J. C. splat may not be original to this case. It is loose, just Brown 8 day brass movement is not signed and the sitting on top for the picture. The veneer is good but coil gong is missing from the brass stand. The case there are the usual nicks on the edges. Overall the has the typical porcelain J. C. Brown door knob. This clock and other case is not bad. $100-$200. J. C. Brown clocks are shown in the book by Kenneth Roberts and Snowden Taylor, “Jonathan Clark Brown and the Forestville Manu- 774. $221 facturing Company”. $200-$350. “Seth Thomas / Plymouth Hollow, Conn.”, steeple weight clock, ca 1858. Rosewood veneered case is 29 inches tall and in near perfect

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778. $300 weights and a pendulum. The door opens from the “Patent Eight Day Clocks / Made and Sold at / Plymouth, Connecti- right, top and bottom brass pivot hinges restored on cut / by / Henry Terry / At the old Manufactory of E. Terry & Sons”, 8 left side, traces of later folding hinges remain at left day wood movement in a double decker case, ca 1832. edge of door, and has a spring latch on right opening The 8 day movement is made of mahogany and that is similar to banjo type. The original dial has some flaking unusual in itself. The mahogany veneered case is 35 paint and a hole below the 12 for viewing the escape inches tall, dark, original finish is untouched. Both wheel. The hole is old but cannot say it is original, doors have key locks, not keys or escutcheon and not could have been done later. Inside is a good label and sure locks even work. It would no doubt need clean- large iron bell. $150-$250. ing. The old bottom glass is held with some very unu- sual wood strips, a kind I have never seen. The top 782. $100 glass has new putty, and probably a replacement. The “W. S. Johnson, / No.16 Courtlandt St. / (near Broad- stenciled columns are opaque, smoky if you are not way,) / New York”, OG cased clock with wood familiar with the word. The dial shows significant movement, ca 1841. He had cases made in New wear, touch up, use and abuse, etc. Below the movement is a large York City, movements made by Chauncey Board- iron bell. There are no weights or pendulum with this clock and I man in Conn., and assembled them and sold with would restring the movement before hanging weights. $400-$600. his label. The label inside the OG case is large and complete, albeit stained. There are no iron weights 779. $200 or pendulum bob. The old mirror has new putty. It Eli Terry & Sons, column and splat shelf clock, ca 1828-1830. Back- has a painted wood dial with some flaking, proper board label is complete and reads, “Patent hands, original gong base but no wire gong, and a 30 hour wood Clocks, / Invented By / Eli Terry / Made and Sold/ movement. There is one tooth on the strike wheel that needs to be At / Plymouth, Connecticut, / By / Eli Terry & Sons”. repaired. Mahogany veneered case is 28.5” tall, basically very nice, This is an 30 hour weight clock, wood movement, just a few tiny veneer chips. As old OG’s go, this one is not bad. $100- in a 31 ½” high mahogany veneered case. It has the $200. original movement but without weights and pen- dulum. The wood pulleys are alike and correct for 783. $210 this clock, but the weight cords must be installed. “Manufactured by / Atkins & Downs / for / George Mitchell / Bristol, A large brass bell is below the movement. The Conn.”, 8 day triple decker case with wood mahogany veneered case is near perfect; both movement, ca 1832. It has three original glasses, glasses are original but the bottom tablet may bottom glass has a nice reverse painting, mirror have been touched up in the middle. Nice old claw has lost only a small amount of silver. Consignor feet, good chimneys and returns, strong stenciling on the quarter commented lower glass may have had some new columns and splat. Excellent wood dial with good paint, no chips or painting, if so I cannot tell it. The splat, although cracks. There is a working door lock with a key. Identical clocks are plain with no stenciling, is original to the case. pictured and described in the book, “Eli Terry and the Connecticut There is very good gold on the columns, only Shelf Clock”, Second Edition Revised, by Kenneth D. Roberts and slight wear. Upper and lower doors have locks, Snowden Taylor. $250-$400. escutcheons, but no keys. The dial is original and very nice and hands are period. There are no 780. $300 weights or a pendulum with this clock. There is “Clocks / Made and Sold by / Riley Whiting, / Winchester, Connecti- an iron bell below the 8 day movement. The label cut / and Cases Made by / William A. Whiting & Co. / has some loss in the center and we notice labels pictured in the Buffalo, N.Y.”, copied from the label in this carved books also have paper loss. Perhaps Atkins bought cheaper labels columns and splat 30 hour wood movement shelf for he was always experimenting with his cases and the other parts. clock, ca 1830. The 30 hour movement has a 36 tooth The mahogany veneered case is 36 inches tall, complete with a nor- escape wheel. It strikes a large iron bell hourly. It mal amount of wear and tear, and a minimal of repairs to the wood needs new weight cords, 30 hour iron weights, and a parts. Pictured and described in the book by Gregory & King, “The brass pendulum bob for those are all missing from Clocks of Irenus Atkins”. $300-$500. this clock. Inside is most of a paper label, some loss in the center. I have noticed that practically all of this collectors clocks have very good to near perfect labels. The top glass is a replacement, the mirror is original. There is no escutcheon over the door lock and no key. It has an excellent wood dial and a pair of period hands. The mahogany veneered case is about 31.5” tall, has very good veneer all around and the carved half columns and carved splat are very good. Overall, for its age, the wood parts are great. $300-$500.

781. $110 “Mark Leavenworth & Co. / Waterbury, Connecticut”, stenciled column and splat with wood movement, ca 1829. This was the last of the Mark Leavenworth firms. The mahogany veneered case is 29.5 inches high with original stenciled columns, old splat but sten- ciling may have been redone. It is missing the returns, the iron

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913. $1 “Waterbury Clocks & Watches”, by Tran Duy Ly. 584 pages. PARTS, BOOKS, & MISC 914. $1 “Sessions Clocks”, by Tran Duy Ly. 336 pages. 900. $100 German sword, 34.5 inches in the scabbard. There are initials and various designs etched into all 911. $1 the parts and a serpent handle. “Sessions Clocks”, Catalogue No.65 / 1915. Company cata- $200-$500. logue. 120 pages.

901. $10 916. $1 Glass dome and wood base. The dome is oval, 18 inches “New Haven Clocks & Watches”, With a Special Section high, 6.5 inches deep, 12 inches wide at the base. Nice on New Haven Movements. By Tran Duy Ly. 520 pages. wood base with wood feet, felt on top. $50-$100. 917. $1 902. $21 “Investing In Clocks & Watches”, by P. W. Cumhaill. 160 Glass dome, no base. I sold the clock pictured with this pages. dome in 2011. It was shipped overseas and to save shipping costs they said do not send the dome. It is time to let some- one else store the dome. It is round, 20.5 inches high and 11 918. $1 inches in diameter. $50-$100. “Clocks & Watches”, by Eric Bruton. 140 pages.

903. $10 A large quantity of alarm clock parts, primarily all are 919. $1 Westclox alarm parts. “Calendar Clocks”, by Tran Duy Ly. 360 pages. $10-$25.

904. $11 920. $1 Iron milking cow, 7.5 wide, 6.5 high. Very old, has origi- “Welch Clocks”, by Tran Duy Ly. 304 pages. nal paint. $60-$100.

901. $10 921. $1 A large quantity of Westclox alarm clock glass, “Ingraham Clocks & Watches”, With a Special Section on various sizes. Early Ingraham Clocks by Thomas J. Spittler. Tran Duy Ly. $10-$25. 384 pages.

906. $1 922. $1 “Chats on Old Clocks”, a practical guide for the collector by “The Wonderful World of Pendulettes, Lux, Keebler, & Arthur Hayden. 304 pages. Westclox”, by Wayne & Ruth Herrmann. 109 Pages.

907. $1 923. $1 “The Lure of the Clock”, by D. W. Hering. 121 pages. “Life Science Library – Time”, by Editors of Life. 200 pag- es. 908. $1 “American Clocks and Clockmakers”, by Carl Drepperd. 924. $1 Over 350 pages. “Time and Its Measurement, From the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age”, by Harrison J. Cowan. 160 pages. 909. $1 “American Clocks and Clockmakers”, by Carl Drepperd. Over 350 pages. 921. $ “A Treasury of American Clocks”, by Brooks Palmer. 371 910. $1 pages. “Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers”, Sev- enth Edition. 518 pages. 926. $1 “Britten’s Watch & Clock Makers’ Handbook, Dictionary 911. $1 & Guide, Fifteenth Edition, Revised by J. W. Player. 600 “American Clocks”, A Guide to identification and Prices. pages. Volume 1, By Tran Duy Ly. 927. $1 912. $1 “The Watch & Clockmakers Handbook Dictionary & “Longcase Clocks and Standing Regulators”, Part 1, Ma- Guide”, by F. J. Britten. 548 pages. chine Made Clocks, By Tran Duy Ly. 504 pages.

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928. $1 941. $1 “The Watch & Clockmakers Handbook”, by F. J. Britten. “Clocks & Watches, Historic timepieces in 100 fascinat- 175 pages. ing pictures”, by E. J. Tyler.

929. $1 942. $1 “Dictionary of Clocks and Watches”, by Eric Bruton. 201 “Watch & Clock Encyclopedia”, by Donald de Carle. pages. Over 3000 entries / Over 1300 Illustrations.

930. $1 “The Book of American Clocks”, by Brooks Palmer. 317 943. $1 pages. “Old Clocks”, by Edward Wenham. 174 pages.

931. $1 “Watch and Clockmakers Handbook, Dictionary and Guide, by Britten. 492 pages. 944. $1 “The American Clock – A comprehensive Pictorial Sur- vey 1723-1900 With a Listing of 6153 Clockmakers”, by 932. $1 Distin & Bishop. “Gordon’s Clockmaking Past & Present”, Revised by A. V. May. 232 pages. 941. $1 “Old Clocks”, by Hallwag. Tiny hardback book, color 933. $1 pictures, descriptions. “De Carle’s Watch & Clock Encyclopedia”. 1300 illustra- tions. 308 pages.

946. $1 th “19 Century American Clocks”, by H. G. Harris. 256 934. $1 pages. “Watchmakers & Clockmakers Encyclopaedic Diction- ary”, by Donald de Carle. 252 pages. 947. $1 “Old Clocks For Modern Use, With a guide to their Mechanism”, by Edward Wenham. 174 pages. 931. $1 “Modern Clocks Their Design and Maintenance”, by T. R. Robinson. 110 pages. 948. $1 “Antique American Clocks & Watches”, by Richard 936. $1 Thomson. 192 pages. “Dictionary of Clocks and Watches”, by Eric Bruton. 202 pages. 949. $1 “Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World”, by G. H. 937. $1 Baillie. 388 pages. “The American Horologist, Official National Publication”. Similar to the NAWCC Bulletin books.

910. $1 938. $1 “The Lure of the Clock, An account of the James Arthur “Clockmaking Past & Present”, by G. F. C. Gordon. 232 Collection of Clocks and Watches at New York Universi- pages. ty”, by D. W. Hering. 121 pages.

939. $1 911. $1 “The Watch and Clockmakers Handbook”, by F. J. Britten. “American Clocks and Clock Makers with 400 Illustra- 547 pages. tions”, by Carl W. Drepperd.

940. $1 “Heavenly Clockwork, The Great Astronomical Clocks of 912. $1 Medieval China – A Missing Link in Horological History”, “Chats on Old Clocks”, by H. Alan Lloyd. 186 pages. by Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, & Derek Price.

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913. $1 967. $1 “Clocks & Watches, An Historical Bibliography”, by G. H. Silver and brass pendulum, 6.25 inches. Baillie. 414 pages.

914. $1 968. $1 “Clocks and Watches”, by G. L. Overton. 24 pages. Pot metal pendulum, 6.5 inches.

911. $1 Brass pendulum, 6.5 inches, slow/fast adjusting needle in the 969. $400 center. Sherline Model 4000A 3.5-inch Lathe. Still in original box, unused, never unpacked. Sells for 916. $1 $654 at TimeSavers. Brass pendulum, 6.5 inches. Identical to #955.

970. $21 917. $1 Inlaid base for glass dome. This came to us with French pendulum, jewel in the center, very unusual. 9.5 inches. a French portico clock but we don’t think it was original to the clock. It is rosewood with a light wood (fruitwood?) inlay on the front, a rose- 918. $1 wood base, and four wooden feet. It will hold a dome that is not Silver pendulum, 6.25 inches, has some small dents. more than 11.5 inches wide by 7.5 inches deep. Of course, it can be used without a dome as well. $25-$50.

919. $1 Brass pendulum, 6.75 inches. Identical to #955 and #956 ex- cept for ornament above the dial.

960. $1 Two barrel nickel and brass pend, 7 inches. Signed, “Davies Patd”.

961. $1 Single barrel nickel and brass pend, 5.5 inches. Excellent.

962. $1 Double barrel brass pend, 6.75 inches.

963. $1 Single barrel nickel and brass pend, 8 inches.

964. $1 Small brass Zandam pend, 4 inches.

961. $1 Nickel pendulum, 7 inches.

966. $1 Brass pend, 8 inches.

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