James Arthur, New York, an unusual drumhead regulator made as a wedding gift for his daughter, Bessie Humphrey Arthur, the mahogany case with glazed base and trunk, the glasses surrounded by half round moldings with decorative brass nails, and with applied, cast brass ornaments, decorative latches and hinges, the signed and dated timepiece movement with damascened, skeletonized brass plates and boxwood wheels, and visible through the trunk door, a bevel geared linkage extending into the drumhead top and driving the motion work, the seatboard with engraved presentation plaque, "Bessie Humphrey Arthur from her father James Arthur October 25th 1904", the movement driven by two reeded brass weights, with heavy brass disc pendulum decorated with turned, concentric beads, and the two piece wooden rod with beat adjustment device, all components reflected in the mirrored case back, silvered dial with pierced arabic numerals and minute markers, and blued steel hands of Arthur's design, together with a copy of Hering's "The Lure of the Clock", which documents the Arthur collection and his thoughts on clockmaking.

James Arthur, New York, New York, banjo style shelf clock, 8 day, time only, weight driven movement in a substantial and well made mahogany case, the silvered metal dial with skeletonized center, heavy brass pendulum bob with turned concentric convex rings, and damascened weight

James Arthur, The Arthur Company, New York, NY for his son Daniel Arthur, "Remontoire Regulator No. 1 with Deadbeat Escapement" floor standing astronomical regulator, 8 days, time only, weight driven movement with a remontoir wheel and carriage that lifts once per minute, providing power to the escape wheel The skeletonized damascened movement is stamped in several places "1" has a perforated center tube surrounding a temperature compensating steel, brass and aluminum pendulum rod and is housed in a pine case with mirrored back. The astronomical dial has three silvered chapter rings for seconds, minutes and hours, below which is a presentation plaque to James Arthur's son Daniel and dated June 13th, 1901

James Arthur, New York City, a "one-of-a-kind" shelf banjo time piece, weight driven, 8 day. 1903 [dated]