57.              $1200

Birge & Fuller 30-hour double-steeple with wagon-spring movement, 1844-1848.  A 24-inch steeple-on-steeple with four cone finials and good mahogany veneer all around; there are some scratches on the front of the base.  The three glasses are period with period Fenn tablets; the middle tablet has an 1864 penciled signature on the back.  The contoured dial holds the original paint with some chipping and wear, the hands are period.  The small 30-hour time-and-strike movement is unsigned and found in other examples.  It is running and striking. The label is an overpaste by Daniel Pratt, Jr, the Boston retailer.  This is a nice example.  AAC sold a similar example a year ago for $1400.  $1200–$1500.