$11,685
Pennsylvania Pillar and Scroll Clock, Allentown, Pennsylvania, c. 1830, the mahogany case with heavy scrolls, wooden finials, freestanding turned columns flanking the full-length door with glazed dial opening over the painted iron Arabic numeral dial with floral spandrels and oval paper label in the reverse penned in script Johann Kaltenbach/Neukirch , lower painting on iron of a memorial scene with angel and mourning maiden, thirty-hour time and countwheel strike movement with birch frame, brass wheels and lantern pinions all powered by two weights and regulated by a pendulum, on four turned feet, ht. 31 in. Provenance: Terry and Karen Brotherton. Literature: Illustrated and discussed in Horological Rarities of Space City '99 , p. 22; Classic American Clocks , p. 7; Pillar and Scroll , pp. 84-85; and Spittler, Stevenson, and Taylor, NAWCC Bulletin #368, p. 332.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-04-25