5. $300

Eli Terry pillar & scroll, ca. 1822. I believe this clock has undergone significant restoration. For an Eli Terry clock it is justified. I would guess that the top and bottom boards are replacements, as is the scroll top and chimneys and the feet. Possibly the skirt. The finish is clean throughout but the veneer on the door looks to be replaced. The brass urn finials are on screws. Both glasses are old but not 1820’s old, and the putty is newer. The tablet was repainted by Tom Moberg in 1994. It’s a classic Eli Terry P&S tablet, you’ve seen it many times. The wooden dial is clean but rather plain; Terry’s early dials typically had some sort of decoration inside the chapter ring, above or below the mainstem. The hands are pewter of modern casting, and pewter hands were used on many of these early clocks. The wooden 30-hour time-and-strike movement is running and striking as expected, with two period weights and an old pendulum bob. The backboard is certainly original, with a well preserved but dark label. There is a key for the working door latch and a winding crank, and new tin dust covers on top. I would like this example better if it had a dial that was more characteristic of Terry’s early clocks, but Eli Terry clocks are not easy to find. $300–$600.