83.              $750

Smith & Goodrich thirty-hour fusee steeple, 1847–1852.  A 20-inch case with mahogany veneer all around and a clean finish.  Both glasses are period/original, with a well-preserved tablet depicting the Hartford State House in Connecticut.  The painted dial is almost certainly original and badly discolored, with some chipping; it is faintly signed “Smith & Goodrich, Bristol, Ct U.S.” under the mainstem.  The hands are proper.  The 30-hour time-and-strike brass fusee movement is unsigned, running and striking on the wire gong; the springs are located behind the attached wooden fusees.  There is a good but water-stained label on the backwall (why are they always water-stained?).  This steeple is notable for the lack of finials – a rare clock.  How rare?  There is only one sale on the Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide, which sold at R.O. Schmitt’s in 2004 for $4600 and was sold by AAC in 2023 for $1030.   $750–$1200.