Sold for:
$1,067
$1,067
Miniature Triple-Decker Shelf Clock by Forestville Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Connecticut, with basket of fruit splat, grained and gilded half-columns flanking both doors, reverse-painted tablets depicting classical architecture, 8 1/2 in. painted zinc dial, printed maker's label on backboard, thirty-hour time and strike weight-powered movement with countwheel, recoil escapement, and two cast iron weights, ht. 30 in. Replacement crest, plinths, feet, and top reverse painted glass, touch-up around winding holes on dial, lower painted glass is the original.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-06-07
