$4,148
Crane's Patent Eight-Day Torsion Pendulum Clock, J. R. Mills & Company, New York, c. 1846-48, the case with rosewood trim, flat bevel to the printed paper dial with Roman numerals and marked J. R. Mills & Co. New York. and A. D. Crane's Patent , printed maker's label inside backboard stating in part Patent Eight-Day Clocks Manufactured by the Year Clock Company 35 Cortlandt Street, New York. Warranted Superior Timekeepers , etched glass tablet and eight-day time and strike movement with two cast iron weights and three-ball torsion pendulum, ht. 20 1/2 in. This clock is pictured in Horology Americana , p. 156. For the definitive study on these innovative clocks see Frederick Shelley, "Aaron Dodd Crane An American Original", NAWCC Bulletin Supplement 16 , Summer 1987, pp. 71-3. No significant condition issues, dial and glass are the original, label now under a removeabe mylar cover, case in old surface.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16
