26.                   $950

Atkins Clock Co. “Thirty Day Octagon”, ca. 1875.  The rosewood-veneered case is 26.5 inches in diameter with an 18-inch dial.  Big and impressive. The finish on the case is great and there is ripple trim around the outside; this clock is shown in Gregory & King’s The Clocks of Irenus Atkins on page 55.  The glass is old but appears to be a replacement.  The wooden bezel is correct, but it may have been grain-painted rosewood at one time.  The metal dial is an aluminum replacement with matte paper dial that shows some wear marks (between the I and II), and some oil staining at the V.  The hands are as shown in the reference.  The 30-day, time-only brass plate, double-fusee movement is running and you can restart a stopped pendulum through a narrow opening between the dial and the case.  But Atkins was cleverer than that.  The entire front of the case lifts on a hinge at the top hanger; you depress the metal button on the bottom to release the spring lock.  On this clock the case was screwed into the backboard some time ago, defeating this access to the pendulum and movement.  Safer, perhaps, but that takes away the fun of “looking under the hood”!  There is a great label inside.  Gregory & King state “Of all the clocks produced by the Atkins Clock Company none makes the statement ‘Atkins’ like the OG Atkins …this clock epitomized the spirit of the Atkins name and company…”.  This exact clock sold at Schmitt Horan last year for $1400, and I think that was a reserve.  $1000-$1400.