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129.              $250

Eight-day wooden works column & splat,ca. 1830.  The label is nearly entirely missing, making it a challenge to identify the maker.  The case is 37 inches tall with a crusty and possibly original finish.  The veneer is mahogany in good shape, I don’t believe the columns were bronzed and more likely are veneered.  They will have to be cleaned to know.  The carved splat of a pineapple in a basket has never been touched.  The dial glass is old but replaced, the mirror in the middle looks like a later replacement, while the lower glass is likely original with the original tablet, touched up and rebacked, but very well preserved.  The wooden dial is darkened, soiled, and faded, the hands are period and proper.  I cannot identify the 8-day, time-and-strike wooden movement.  It runs briefly and will strike but does not like to stop.  It is powered by two 10-lb weights.  Clean up of the case would make a difference here, with an excellent lower tablet.  The average of 11 sales of 8-day wooden works clocks by AAC is $355. $250–$400.

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Antique American Clocks                     JANUARY 2025

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