$25,200
Gurdon Huntington Musical Tall Clock, Windham, Connecticut, and Walpole, New Hampshire, c. 1790, the cherry solid fret-top case with freestanding fluted columns flanking the glazed hood door over the 12-in. painted iron Roman numeral dial inscribed G. Huntington with floral corners and moon's age dial and six tunes indicated by the brass hand in the arch including R. D. Stuben's Favorite , The Frog and the Mouse , The Lass of Pa...ten Mill , ...Psalm , Handels Minuet , and The...Bower , tombstone-shaped waist door and base panel inlaid with segmented banded inlay, all on ogee bracket feet, eight-day movement with count wheel hour strike and three train, six-tune musical movement with pin barrel and ten bells mounted above, seconds beating pendulum and three tin-cased weights, ht. 97 in. Provenance: By descent from the original owner, Ephraim Brown (1775-1845). This clock traveled from Windham, Connecticut, to Bloomfield, Ohio, with Gurdon Huntington's widow, Temperance, in 1814, where she joined her daughter Mary and son-in-law Ephraim Brown at Brownwood, the family homestead. It returned to Connecticut with the Brown family about 1970 to a house located a few miles from where the journey began. Note: According to Penrose Hoopes, Connecticut Clock Makers of the 18th Century (reprinted 1975), pp. 92-3, Gurdon Huntington (1763-1804) was born in Windham and by age 21 was advertising in the Connecticut Gazette that he was carrying on the clock and watch business a few rod Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-02
