Description
the most prominent fault is that the last owner cut off around 11 inches of the plinth so it would fit in a stair well. The fret top is from another clock and the chimneys are recent, cut and stained to match, and the hood drilled to accept them. The slender case retains a long tomb-stone door. The movement has typical cut-out arches in the plates and is well made; on the dial, period seconds hand came with it, but the shaft is too long, and needs shortening; minute hand has been shortened to fit this dial. The pheasant in the arch is nicely painted; numerals strengthened at some time; spandrel paint is still xlnt. Height 82 inches
Record courtesy of R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts