37.           $750

Jerome & Co. double dial wall clock, ca. 1886.  No, you’ve never seen this model before.  This is perhaps the rarest of the uncommon Jerome & Co. double dial calendar clocks. They were made and marketed by the New Haven Clock Co. after they absorbed Jerome & Co., which went bankrupt in 1855, but they continued to use the Jerome & Co. name for many years.  You can find this clock in Miller & Miller, Survey of American Clocks, Calendar Clocks, on page 125 as an unnamed model.  There is one sale online, at an auction in Rutland, VT in 2010 for $2500; no sales on the Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide going back to 1999.  The walnut case is 43 inches long, with a reasonably clean old finish and some nice carvings and checkering.  I do not know if the finials are original/correct, as I have no catalog illustration to refer to.  Note the bottom finial.  The door glass is old but probably not original. The dials are paper, bearing the Jerome & Co. logo and in the style that was used on Jerome/New Haven double dial clocks. Both dials are worn, discolored, faded, and old.  The five hands would appear to be correct, and old.  The 8-day, time-only movement is signed and running and the calendar hands are advancing properly (amazing!).  If you’re a Jerome collector this is the one you don’t have.  $750–$1500.

John Quill notes that the bottom finial looks like the bottom finial from a Kroeber Regulator No. 30, and says some of the hands are not correct for Jerome.