78.              $500

Birge & Fuller double-steeple with wagon spring movement, 1844-1848.  A 27-inch case veneered in flame mahogany with cone finials and sitting on ball feet; the finish is clean and the veneer is excellent.  The three glasses are original, with worn frosted tablets, the lower glass badly cracked. The contoured dial holds the original paint with slight chipping and yellowing, the hands are original/proper.  The eight-day brass time-and-strike movement is clean, signed, and running, striking on a wire gong and powered by a wagon spring invented by Joseph Ives.  There is an old pendulum bob and a good label behind plastic.  AAC sold this clock two years ago for $635.  $500–$1200.