65.      $150

Seth Thomas “Paris”, 1895.  Good grief, I searched through over 3,000 Seth Thomas clocks on the Antique Clocks Price Guide before I found a match for this clock; one sold at Schmitt’s in 2003 for $360.  It is the only sale on Antique Clocks Price Guide.  You will not find this model in either of Ly’s latest volumes on Seth Thomas clocks, but Kyle Kenyon tells me it is shown in Ly's 1996 edition.  It is 15.5 inches tall in an imitation marble adamantine finish, with imprinted black scrollwork on the front.  It is embellished with gilt ornaments across the top and bottom; the giltwork is remarkably well preserved, as is the adamantine; I see only one spot to the right of the dial where the adamantine has cracked.  The finish on the top finial is not quite as well preserved.  The signed porcelain dial sits in a brass bezel behind a convex glass; there is a hairline and a repair near the 11.  There is a signed, round movement with an external count wheel; it strikes on a cathedral gong.  It is running and striking as required, on the hours and half-hours.  There is no label (there are two jeweler’s repair labels) but the bottom is stenciled with the date of manufacture, which confirmed to me that it was a Seth Thomas clock. Hence, the hunt through Antique Clocks Price Guide to find a name.  Based on the sale in 2003 I would expect this to sell for between $150 and $250.