$2,370
Federal Butternut Tall Clock, probably Dracut, Massachusetts, c. 1810, the hood with pierced fret and brass finials, brass stop fluted free-standing columns flanking the arched and glazed hood door over the "Osborne" painted iron dial with Roman numerals and bird in the arch, waist door flanked by brass stop fluted quarter columns and bracket foot base, eight-day time and strike movement powered by iron weights and regulated by a wooden pendulum rod and brass faced bob, ht. 88 1/2 in. A January 6, 1864 handwritten note by J.P. Varnum states that this clock was owned by Jonas Varnum of Dracut, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War and a combatant at Bunker Hill. The clock stood in the dining room of Varnum's house for seventy years and descended in his family. No significant repairs, replacements or restoration. Period hands, weights, pendulum and mechanical components. Dial probably cleaned and relined. Original feet and fret, bottom board now gone.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16
