115.           $400

Asaph Hall transitional shelf clock, 1830-1837.  This clock represents the changeover from the pillar and scroll design to the sturdier column and splat style of clocks that became common after 1830.   Note the presence of a scroll top and skirt, both with easily broken elements, along with the bronzed half-columns on the sides instead of delicate pillars.  Hall worked out of Goshen CT until 1837, when he moved to Clinton, GA, where he continued to make and sell wooden works clocks, some with Georgia labels.  Samuel Terry provided many of the movements he used; this one has ivory bushings, as advertised on the paper label.  The case is 31 inches tall with the finial and has maple blocks in the crest; I think the scroll top is original, with minor repairs to the scrolls.  The brass finials are solid with wooden posts. Both glasses are old but the putty is new, the tablet repainted nicely.  The bronzed half-columns are modern, and the skirt and feet may be a replacements; there is no evidence that this clock ever had paw feet.  The wooden dial is clean, the hands correct but the minute hand is modern.  As noted above, the 30-hour wooden movement has ivory bushings and is running and striking as required.  A darkened but complete label; old/original tin dust covers over the pulleys on top.  I can find no matching sales; a rare clock.  $400-$600.