83.              $500

Birge & Fuller double-steeple with wagon spring movement, 1844-1848.  A refinished 27-inch case veneered in mahogany with two well done repairs on the front. There are cone finials and it sits on ball feet; the dial glass is period/original, the center and lower glasses are modern with excellent Fenn-style tablets.  The contoured dial has been repainted, the hands are original/proper.  The eight-day brass time-and-strike movement is clean, signed, and runs for a while before stopping, striking on a wire gong and powered by a wagon spring invented by Joseph Ives.  There is an old pendulum bob and a tattered label behind the wagon spring.  The average of four sales of this model on AAC is $875.  $500–$1200.