92.              $1500

Atkins Clock Co. “London”, ca. 1860. Although it looks like a standard Atkins London, this is a rare clock with an early 30-day time-and-strike round movement considered to be a prototype, found in only a few examples.  For details see Gregory and King, The Clocks of Irenus Atkins, pages 82-85. The rosewood-veneered case is 17 inches tall with a clean finish and good veneer all-around.  Both glasses are modern replacements, the dial glass with a surround printed on heavyweight paper and the middle tablet a modern replacement more appropriate for a Seth Thomas clock.  The handle for the upper door is missing.  The metal dial is original with the original paint and numbering, touched up in a few places.  The hands are period and probably original.  The attraction here is the large round brass plate movement, with two 30-day springs for the time-and-strike, rarely seen.  Atkins used this movement in a few models early on but switched to a rectangular fusee movement for production models.  The movement is running and striking as expected.  There is a good label inside, with the interior painted orange for some reason not known to me, but it appears to be original.  I can find no sales of this model, but 30-day Londons with fusee movements typically sell for $1500 and up, and AAC sold a 30-day fusee in 2021 for $1850.  $1500-$2500.