$2,015
Mahogany Shelf Clock by Silas B. Terry and Company, Terryville, Connecticut, c. 1840, the box case with reverse-painted tablet, painted zinc dial with Roman numerals, paper dust cover inside backboard, 30-hour brass timepiece with detatched wooden fusee, ht. 11 in. Literature: This clock is illustrated in The American Clock, by William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, p. 121, plate 250. Zinc dial is a replacement. Reverse-painted tablet is the original.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-06-07