Antique American Clocks                      January 2021

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44.      $225

Vienna one-weight wall clock, ca. 1880.  This Vienna is smaller than #43, at 44 inches. There used to be something on top, either a crest or three finials.  It looks good as is.  The door glass is old and there are two side lights; the right glass is cracked with a missing piece.  The two-part porcelain dial has a hairline crack at the 7; it is signed P. Peucker in Wien.  The 8-day movement is unsigned; time is driven by one weight, and the quarter hours and hour strikes are spring-driven and sound on two wire gongs, just as with #43.  The movement is mounted to a seatboard and slides into wooden supports.  It is running and striking as expected.  The style of this clock suggests to me it is from the transitional or earlier period (1850-1870).

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