40.                   $150

Sperry & Shaw column & cornice shelf clock, 1844-1851.  A 30.5-inch mahogany case with a clear finish, mahogany half-columns and lower panel, and a beautiful tablet of the Connecticut State House in Hartford.  The dial glass is period, the tablet glass newer and the painting a modern reproduction of an 1834 lithograph by Edward Williams Clay, and also seen on the John Hunt oversized steeple (#64).  The wood dial is clean, the hands period-correct.  The 8-day, time-and-strike brass movement is unusual, and I don’t recognize the maker; it is not signed.  It is running and striking as expected.  There are two cast iron weights, not necessarily period, and a good label inside.  Sperry and Shaw were retailers in New York City and purchased movements and cases from various Connecticut makers.  I can find just one other example of this model on LiveAuctioneers and the Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide, and no recent sales.  $150–$300.