73.               $250

C & LC Ives Patent Brass Eight Day Clock, 1830-1836. The Ives worked in Bristol CT using cases made by Elias Ingraham and movements by Joseph Ives.  The case is 37 inches tall with good mahogany veneer, an unusual bronze-stenciled splat that says “Brass clocks made by C. & L.C. Ives”, and three period glasses: the dial glass is original, the middle glass shows a “View near Natches”, and the lower glass is again original, but has a rebacked image that may be an earlier repaint.  The View near Natches has been professionally restored but looks like a period tablet, and may be based on a lithograph of Natchez, Mississippi by Henry Lewis published in 1854.  If so, it is a replacement glass, as the clock is older than that.  It may have originally been a mirror.  The wooden dial is clean with a gilded chapter ring, as seen on most of the dials by this firm.  The hands are old but probably not original. The 8-day, time-and-strike strap-brass movement with zinc/spelter winding barrels is unsigned; it will run for a while but needs adjustment, driven by two period 8-day weights.  It strikes on the iron bell with a nice sound.  There is a good label inside.  $250-$400.