90.           $50

Chauncey Goodman Eight-day OG, ca. 1852.  Goodrich worked on his own after his partnership with Samuel Smith ended in 1852; he went on to become a US Senator in 1870 but died in an alms house in New Haven in 1895, after losing all his money in the stock market and attempting suicide in 1888.  A bit of a sad story. The OG case is 28.5 inches tall with good mahogany veneer and an old but clean finish.  Both glasses are period with an outstanding tablet of McLean Asylum in Somerville MA, founded in 1811.  McLean Hospital still exists as a psychiatric hospital on this site in Belmont, west of Boston; the artist for this lithograph is unknown, but several similar lithographs can be found.  Note the early steam train on the left.  The metal dial is clean, the hands period and appropriate.  The 8-day brass, weight-driven movement is unsigned and untested; there are no weights with this clock.  A readable but stained and torn label inside. $50–$100.