168.    $100

John Hunt Round-side shelf clock, ca. 1840.  There are several examples of round-sides with a John Hunt label inside, and several have wooden movements to go with the wooden dial.  This one has a Jeromes brass movement (unsigned) that looks like it was always there; I see no evidence of a wooden movement.  Hunt was known to buy movements from others and was a casemaker, he may have made this very nice mahogany case.  The label is partial but sufficient to attribute to Hunt in Farmington CT.  The dial is wooden, in good shape, the dial glass likely original and held in with putty.  The lower glass holds a lithograph of a former U.S. President and is backed by a wooden backboard; it is likely that it was a mirror originally. There is a veneer chip on the back left of the base.  The unsigned movement is running and striking a wire gong, driven by two square 30-hour weights; the pulleys have tin covers.  This is the last of the four round-sides in this auction (#5, 6, 167, 168).  $100-$200.