$593
Porcelain Front Mantel Clock by Forestville Hardware and Clock Company, Forestville, Connecticut, c. 1850, with gilt decoration, printed maker's label on backboard, painted zinc dial and thirty-hour lever escapement movement, ht. 11 1/2 in. This clock is illustrated and discussed in Kenneth D. Roberts and Snowden Taylor, Jonathan Clark Brown and the Forestville Manufacturing Company , pages 57-60. Object left front foot broken.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-02-15