65.              $100

Birge, Case & Co. “Patent Brass Eight Day Clock” (triple decker), 1833-1835.  This is an early Birge company that formed shortly after Birge rescued Joseph Ives from debtor’s prison in New York; in return for this favor Ives granted Birge the right to use his strap brass movements, as found here.  The case is 37 inches tall in mahogany with an old, dull finish.  The carvings on the half columns and splat are outstanding; the gilded middle flanking columns are dull and chipped, and possibly repainted.  It stands on paw feet in front and turned feet in back which may be replacements.  The dial glass is a twentieth century replacement, the middle eglomise painting original and lovely, and the bottom mirror period but likely a replacement.  The gilded wooden dial board  is in good condition, the hands are period/original.  The 8-day time-and-strike movement is unsigned; it is running and striking, a bit sluggishly, on a large iron bell.  There are period 8-day weights, a period pendulum bob, and a good label on the backwall.  $100–$250.