112.          BN-8.            $50

E.N. Welch Mfg. Co. “Fannie Rice”, ca. 1892.  A 23-inch refinished black walnut case with the original glass and a well-retained gold stencil.  The painted dial is clean, the hands proper and as shown in the catalog illustration on page 395 of Ly’s book on Welch clocks.  The 8-day, time and half-hour strike movement is signed and clean but will not run or strike.  There is a Welch pendulum and a worn label on the back, and an alarm hooked up but untested.  Fannie Rice was a singer and actress at the turn of the twentieth century.  $50–$100.