62.              $500

E.N. Welch Mfg. Co. double-steeple, ca. 1855. The label notes that Welch made this clock “at the old establishment Late J.C. Brown” in Forestville CT.  The 23.5-inch case is veneered in mahogany, with missing strips on the sides of the base.  The three glasses are old, the two tablets appear to be period, with some touch-up to the lower tablet and rebacking to the upper tablet.  I cannot exclude the possibility that it is a modern replacement. I am not sure what the lower tablet depicts; the middle tablet shows a lithograph of Paris and the Seine. The four finials are proper but may be replacements, and the top right finial has had some poor repairs to the tip.  That can be fixed.  The painted dial is clean with proper period hands.  The 8-day, time-and-strike movement is signed E.N. Welch and is running and striking without problem.  The dark green label is difficult to read.  Welch bought out the bankrupt Brown in 1855, at the tail-end of the double-steeple fashion period, and so there are not many similar examples: I looked through 700 Welch clocks on the Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide and found two sales, neither recent; on LiveAuctioneers I found two examples.  $500–$800.