$6,518
Rosewood "London Mantel" Eight-Day Chronometer Shelf Clock by Atkins Clock Company, Bristol, Connecticut, c. 1865, with turned and gilded columns flanking the painted zinc Roman dial faintly stamped Pat'd 1 [?] 63 , transfer gilt and black decorated tablet and looking glass, lower rosewood veneered door, large printed maker's label on backboard stating, Eight and Thirty-Day Clocks and Time-Pieces Made and Sold by the Atkins Clock Comp'y, Bristol, CT , eight-day time only chain drive fusee movement with maintaining power, balance wheel detent escapement and center second's hand, ht. 16 3/4 in. Although the printed maker's label offers directions to set up a pendulum clock, Atkins apparently mounted this chronometer movement in an available case. Dial relined.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-06-07
