HORTON'S ANTIQUE CLOCKS January 2019 Sealed bid auction This is a blind, or sealed-bid auction. You submit a bid sheet with the How does this work? maximum price you wish to pay for an item by the close of the auc- tion (January 31). If you are the high bidder you win the item! You will be notified if you have won the item at the close of the auction and will have 15 business days to make payment by check, credit card, money order, or Paypal. Extended payment plans are availa- ble. See the Detailed Instructions for more information. There is a 15% buyer's premium on all sales. Who can I contact Carroll Horton, 3864 Wyse Square, Lexington, KY 40510 with questions? (859) 381-8633 FAX (866) 591-6616 email: [email protected] Website: Hortonclocks.com Horton’s Antique Clocks – January 2019 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures 1. $1250 rare ca 1930 banjo clock. This clock uses Waltham’s famous 8-day George A. Jones, New York, N.Y. He made wall regula- timepiece weight driven movement. The original internal parts are tor clocks in New York from 1864-1873 and shelf clocks the movement, pendulum, pendulum stick, weight in Bristol, Conn. 1870-1874. His wall regulators generally chute metal cover, and pendulum tie down. It is miss- were made in a Vienna style with 8-day weight driven ing the tie down. The weight is correct, the throat glass movements and sweep seconds. Some he made with has a few inconsequential paint chips around the edg- pinwheel escapements. This walnut case is 53 inches es; the bottom Mt. Vernon glass appears to have been tall, has two-part porcelain dial with sweep seconds, professionally restored without removing the glass gridiron pendulum and brass weight, all appear to be from the frame. By that I mean the yellow paint was original stock. The movement is attached to an iron rebacked. The dial is original, signature is good, hands backplate. The Vienna style case has three glasses and are original, and the two door latches are in good finials top and bottom. George Jones clocks are very working order. Mahogany case has the original finish, rare and very collectable. We have rarely sold any of his stands near 41” high, and retains the original top piece fine clocks. $1250-$1500. and side rails with special carved objects at the top and bottom. This style Waltham banjo clock regularly sells 2. $250 in the $3000-$3500 range, if you could find one. Ly- George A. Jones, New York, N.Y. This clockmaker American, Volume 1, page 246. $1500-$2500. had an interesting history and his clocks are very collectable today. This shelf clock is known as the 6. $1200 “Turret” model, very different styling as were all “Wayne Cline, Bowling Green, Ky.” Lyre banjo, ca 1998. The carved his clocks. The case appears to be original, perhaps mahogany case stands 42 inches high, is like new and a little dull, needing polish, and some minor adjust- all original. A good-looking lady is painted on the tab- ments here and there. The pendulum looks to be let. The dial is signed, “Wayne R. Cline / Bowling Green, original, but then we never see his pendulums so KY”, and the case is stamped “3” in many places. Cline cannot be sure. The paper dial is a replacement. also stamps his code on all his clocks. This one is: The 8-day time and strike movement is running. “0/3/454/98”. The case is in overall excellent condition, $250-$350. the movement is properly signed, “Wayne Cline”. The 8-day weight, pendulum, and 8-day weight movement 3. $700 are original stock and the movement is clean and in Wayne Cline, Bowling Green, Ky. Reproduction of a Howard No. 10, running condition. I have my reasons for thinking ca 2002. These very popular figure 8 clocks have always been very why he did it, because I have done the same thing. collectable models. This one is about 34 inches tall, Note that this lyre banjo is identical to the Campos made of excellent walnut wood and finished every bit as banjo in the January 2018 auction, No. 202, and the nice as the original Howard made clocks. It has an 8-day, Campos Lyre banjo in the July 2018 auction, No. 20. time only movement and is weight driven. It is signed $2000-$3000. and numbered everywhere in Cline’s own lingo; “0/85/549/02”. It has a proper door latch, glasses, dial, 7. $700 and hands, all identical to an original ca 1880 Howard E. Howard & Co., Boston, Mass. “Bicentennial Banjo, ca figure 8. Reproductions made by Howard have sold at 1976. Designed like the Banjo clocks 1 thru 5, then they several auctions, always bringing from $2500 to $3500. added a finial on the top and bottom. The mahogany We have seen the original No. 10’s sell at auctions for up case is 42 inches tall and in perfect condition. The re- to $15,000. No wonder these Cline reproductions are so verse painted throat and lower tablets have a thirteen popular. They don’t come any nicer than this one. $1000- colonies motif. Perfect painted dial is signed, “E. How- $1500. ard & Co/ Boston”. A label inside indicates the serial number of the clock is #149 and it was made in 1978. If 4. $250 you can find one of this model for sale you will more Reproduction miniature “Laterndluhr”, signed by the than likely pay upwards of $1500. $900-$1200. maker in 3 different places, on the dial, “C. E. Beacham III / in Sisters, on the beat scale, “Beacham’s Clock Co.”, and on the back, “No. 329, C. E. Beacham III, 1988”. It is 8. $500 a magnificent 26-inch-high case with wood I cannot Ansonia Clock Company, Ansonia, Conn., hanging describe unless it is a very light walnut. Note the inlay clock, “Commerce”, ca 1883. This early wall clock is 36 around the 4 clock sections from top to base. It has 9 inches tall, made with walnut wood and is nice and beveled glasses, three on each side and the front. clean and polished. It surely spent the last 135 years in Signed porcelain dial and apparently a pair of special a nice smoke free home. The nice carved top and base made hands. Two hinged doors on the front, brass pen- are all original as are the full columns, excellent door dulum bob and wood stick, brass weight, and a clean as glass, brass pendulum with wood stick, and the dial a pin 8-day time only brass movement. Gosh, what a and hands. The 8-day movement is time only and run- clock, a definite keeper. This clock was purchased at an ning. There is not a lot to talk about when the clock is east coast auction by the previous owner, for over this nice and clean. Ly-Ansonia #609. $500-$750. $800. $300-$500. 9. $1000 5. $1400 George A. Jones & Co., New York, Regulator No. 1, ca 1873. This unu- “Waltham Watch Co. / U.S.A.”, signed on the movement of this very sual and rare clock has an 8-day weight driven time only movement 2 Horton’s Antique Clocks – January 2019 Auction Visit Hortonclocks.com for more pictures with pinwheel escapement and maintaining power. It weight bank clock, ca 1875. This contemporary clock was possibly has 8-inch Roman numeral white porcelain dial and made by Joel Warren, who lives near Ithaca, New York, and who center second hand. The gridiron pendulum with owns the remaining stock of the Ithaca factory brass ball and the brass weight are original. The sleek parts. He supplies the clock collecting public with walnut case is around 52 inches tall with fancy carv- precision Ithaca Calendar clock parts. This clock ings, attached ornaments and finials all around. The was no doubt duplicated exactly from an original case was in process of some light restoration when model, and if you would drag it behind your car for the collector had to let his collection go to others. 3 a while, hang it in a shed to accumulate some dust parts are not permanently attached to the case at and spiders, it might pass for an 1883 model. In a this time but I put them in place for the picture. I hundred years some member of your family would believe the bottom finial is original but not the small own an antique No. 0. First and foremost, this is a block it is attached to. It needs to be drilled to attach beautiful clock, made of walnut, 50 inches high, to the case. The two small pieces attached to the top and has carvings top and bottom. Any or all of finial are not original and not now attached. In my those things make it a desirable clock. What you research I found they were applied on the top in two may not see in the picture are the case sides, and different positions. All the other attachments appear the fine looking dials. The movement is 8-day, and to be original. This clock is more original and has appears to be an older one. There are two iron fewer new parts than any I found that have sold in live auctions for weights that descend the case sides. When this one is sold there will $1000 to $1500. Other Jones clocks in this auction have details about be no more unless someone in the future accepts the challenge.