Antique American Clocks July 2021
42. $1000
Daniel Frost chamber clock, ca. 1760. Daniel Frost is known only for this clock, an 8-day
brass, double-fusee, time-and-strike movement like English bracket clock movements of the time (and may in fact be English, as it
is unsigned) mounted to a tall-case dial with a moon phase arch dial and a calendar window below the mainstem. The dial has
almost certainly been repainted and is now chipping in several places. It is signed “Daniel Frost | Reading”. A standard
short pendulum (now missing), again like that of an English bracket clock allows this tall case/bracket clock-hybrid to sit in a 28-inch
mahogany case on turned feet, a broken arch top and wooden urn finials. The case looks to be from the late 1800’s; it is not
the original case for this clock, however, as it previously sold at Hindman’s in 2013 in a more elaborate shelf case, and then sold
again in 2018 at Fontaine’s in that same case. In both instances it sold for $3000. It is now looking for a new home. You will need to find a pendulum for it; it runs and strikes. This clock was described in Timepieces Quarterly, published by
the American Clock & Watch Foundation, Vol. 1, No. 4, page 220, 1950. $1000-$3000.
