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Antique American Clocks                      July 2021

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132.     $100

Gustav Becker one-weight Vienna regulator, ca. 1870.  The serial number on the Frieberg-made movement (42323) dates to around 1870, but the 36-inch case is more of the Jugendstil period (1880-1920).  The movement may be a replacement or the case altered, or both.  The crest is not original; there does not appear to have been a base and the bottom of the case has been broken out.  The case is grain-painted inside and one side glass is broken.  The two-part porcelain dial has some hairlines and the center section is not secure; there is a dent in the pendulum bob.  The signed, time-only movement runs for a while and then stops.  $100-$150.

 

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