$4,740
Walnut Tall Clock by Thomas Wagstaff, London and Rhode Island, c. 1785, the domed top over an arched hood door with free-standing columns, tombstone-shaped waist door and molded base, 12-in engraved sheet brass silvered dial with Roman numerals, seconds dial and signed in the arch Thos. Wagstaff London , eight-day time and strike five-pillar movement with recoil escapement, rack and snail, two brass-cased weights and pendulum, (imperfections), ht. 90 1/2 in. Note: Thomas Wagstaff was a Quaker and his movements/dials were often cased in Philadelphia or Newport, Rhode Island, for sale to an American Quaker clientele. According to a note dated 1900 inside the case, this clock was made for Jethro Starbuck of Nantucket and descended in this family to William Benjamin Weeks, who owned the clock in 1900. Secondary wood throughout the case is chestnut; No signficant repairs or replacements, case in old surface, period weights, pendulum, key and hands, one waist molding loose and needs gluing, dial resilvered.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-11-08
