234.            $100

French(?) small gallery clock, ca. 1900.  There is no label and I cannot access the movement to see if it is marked, but this clock looks French to me.  The case is 15 inches in diameter with ebonized rings, a brass bezel, old glass, and a 9.5-inch formed porcelain dial with cartouche numbering and French Breguet hands.  There are some hairline cracks to the dial and some wear to the outer minute markers.  The 8-day, time and half-hour strike movement is running and striking on a wire gong with a deep sound.  The dial is on posts pinned to the movement, the movement is mounted on the backboard.  You cannot remove the dial from the front, so I assume you must remove the backboard (held to the frame with small screws) to access the movement.  I did not do so.  Since it’s running it’s all good, for now.  You access the pendulum from a drop-down door at the bottom.  $100–$250.