$5,228
Birge and Fuller Beehive Candlestick "Wagon Spring" Clock, Bristol, Connecticut, c. 1850, painted zinc Roman numeral dial over the transfer-decorated tablet flanked by a pair of "candlesticks," the lower door with transfer painted tablet with pendulum aperture of red flowers, inside a printed maker's label, thirty-hour time and strike "accelerating lever" or wagon-spring clock, ht. 21 3/4 in. Provenance: Chris Bailey; Terry and Karen Brotherton. Literature: Illustrated and discussed in NAWCC Bulletin #277, p. 170; also shown in Classic American Clocks , p. 10, and Horological Rarities of Space City '99 , p. 3.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-04-25