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110.            $250

Edmund Wooding long drop shelf clock with Torrington movement,ca. 1835.  Wooding was a shop foreman for Erastus Hodges, who took over the Norris North shop in 1831.  Hodges ended his business in 1837, and I can find the sale of only one other clock with Wooding’s label.  The clock offered here sold at Cottone’s in 2017 for $325.  The case is 29 inches tall with faded bronzing on the half-columns and splat.  The base has a veneer repair and a chip on the side at the front corner.  The dial glass appears to be original, the lower glass modern with a tablet by Moberg.  The wooden dial looks like original equipment, lightly soiled, but little fading.  The hands are period. The east-west wooden, 30-hour time-and-strike movement will run but the strike chain is not working properly.  There are two period weights and a torn and worn label inside, with enough to show the maker.  A rare example.  $250–$500.

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Antique American Clocks                     JANUARY 2025

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