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Antique American Clocks                      July 2021

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151.      $100

Seth Thomas “Bee”, ca. 1881.  A 15-inch ebony cabinet clock with marqueterie on the front panel; the bee is in the upper right corner.  The case is clean and relatively free of scuffs and scrapes.  The 4-inch dial is porcelain with Seth Thomas above the mainstem, sitting behind a flat beveled glass.  The hands are replacements, not quite to specs.  The round, 8-day, time-and-strike movement is running, begrudgingly, and striking slowly on the hours and half-hours. It is signed “Seth Thomas & Sons”.  It strikes on a cathedral gong.  $100-$200.

 

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