$7,200
Benjamin Swan Birch Tall Clock, Augusta, Maine, c. 1825, fret-top case, freestanding turned columns with brass capitals flanking glazed hood door over painted iron Roman numeral dial marked B Swan Augusta below date aperture, seconds dial, painted spandrels, rocking ship in arch, rectangular waist door with crossbanding, brass capitals on horizontally decorated inset waist columns, flat base panel all over bracket feet, eight-day time and strike movement, two weights and pendulum, ht. 86 in. No finials. Some paint flaking on dial. Weights are not matched- one tin can on filled brass tube.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-12-01