232.         $350

S. Marti bow-front crystal regulator, ca. 1900.  This clock was made for and retailed by Bailey, Banks, & Biddle in Philadelphia early in the last century.  The brass case is 11 inches tall with a polished gold finish and two cut-glass columns on the front sides; there is a gold ornament on the front of the base. The front glass is beveled and bowed; the side and back glasses are flat and beveled.  The flawless porcelain dial is decorated but unsigned, with fancy brass hands.  The round pendule a Paris 8-day, time and half-hour strike movement is signed by Marti and is imprinted with the Philadelphia retailer’s name.  It is running and striking, regulated by a two-jar sealed mercury pendulum. This is a beautiful example.   $350–$500.