Description
painted and gilt wooden dial with Roman on chapter ring, inner minute ring marked with dots, bold every 5 minutes, spandrels with branching cotton Bloom with raised gilt scroll work surround and center, 30-hour wooden time and strike weight driven movement, interior with illustrated printed paper label with U.S. shield breasted eagle clutching arrows and trident in one talon and olive branch and trumpet in the other above Patent/Clocks,/Invented By/Eli Terry./Made And Sold/At Plymouth, Connecticut/By/Seth Thomas with directions, door with 19th century engraving of St. Bernard dog with mahogany case in original cleaned varnish finish with ebonized and bronze stenciled floral half columns, plain mahogany scroll cut crest with basket of bronzed fruit, flanked by flowers, flanked by mahogany plinths, stepped-out base, 4.4" x 17.5" x 34.25" high. Condition report Currently running. We do not guarantee working order of clocks.
Record courtesy of Cowan's Auctions