229.    $100

Sessions banjo, ca. 1927.  I can’t find this banjo in Ly’s book on Sessions clocks.  It is clearly a Sessions clock; the partial label on the back is a Sessions label, the panels are Sessions images, the dial and movement are signed. It is 34 inches tall, in a dark hardwood case with some scratches that could be hidden with a stain pen.  The brass side arms are not found on other Sessions banjos and the throat glass is cracked (note that it is glass in front of a panel so could be easily replaced).  The silvered dial is in excellent condition and the 8-day, time-and-strike movement is running and striking on the hours and half-hours on a wire gong.  $150-$250.