Antique American Clocks                      January 2020

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450.    $200

Japy Freres & Cie small table clock, ca. 1870.  This brass, Louis XIV-style clock is just 12 inches tall with elaborate brass decorations, garlands, and the requisite urn on top.  At first, I thought it was firegilded, but I believe it is all brass, possibly gilded as I see no tarnish, but no wear either.  There is a bit of spotting to the finish, mostly on top, but nothing you can’t live with, and it might clean off with a bit of polish.  There is a metal repoussé dial with white cartouche porcelain numbers and a retailer, L. Engelskirchen, Dusseldorf.  The dial glass is convex and beveled.  There is a pendule de Paris time-and-strike movement with the Japy Freres logo and an outside count wheel.  It is running and striking on a nickel bell.  Note the small key hanging from the top, used to adjust the fast/slow setting.  This little guy is too pretty to pass up.  $250-$500.

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