60.      $250

Silas Hoadley 30-hour tall case, ca. 1820.  Silas worked with Seth Thomas before 1813, and on his own thereafter.  He made the wooden movements and the cases were made by others.  This pine case is 85 inches tall and was likely painted when originally made.  Some were grain-painted to imitate expensive woods.  The case is simple and lacks complicated carvings and trim but does have two fluted quarter-columns on each side on each side of the waist section and full columns on the hood.  It is missing a small piece of trim on the left-side waist molding.  It has a very plain base with splayed bracket feet typical of the early 1800’s.  There is a brass finial on top and a brass door latch that is probably a later addition.  The painted and signed wooden dial mounts into a groove on the saddle board of the movement and fits perfectly into the hood frame, suggesting that this movement, dial and case have always been together; note that there have been repairs to the movement mount and the top part of the case backwall has been replaced.  The repairs are not complete, as there is no hanger for the pendulum on the new backwall, and so until a pendulum hanger is found this clock is just a looker.  The dial is clean and the painting is still sharp, with none of the common “stretch marks” one often sees on old wooden dials.  The intricately carved hands are heavy metal and period if not original; one subsidiary dial hand is a replacement (maybe both).  There are two hand-made weights (originally there were probably can weights filled with pebbles) on pull-up cords, and a heavy period pendulum and rod.  $250-$500.