$4,305
Timby Walnut "Solar Timepiece" or Globe Clock, Saratoga Springs, New York, c. 1865, the scroll-top case with central turned finial and gilt cap, printed Arabic numeral hour dial encircling the 6- in. twelve-gore printed globe marked on the maker's boss Joslin's Six Inch Terrestrial Globe, Containing the Latest Discoveries, Gillman Joslin, Boston 1860 , in a brass yoke with North Pole facing front, lower minute dial with Arabic numerals behind a hinged and glazed door, eight-day, time-only movement with balance wheel escapement, ht. 26 1/2 in. Provenance: Terry and Karen Brotherton. Note: The annual report of the American Institute, New York City, 1867-68, describes the Timby timepiece as "a miniature world or model of the earth, put in motion, making a revolution once in twenty-four hours, moved by a superior time movement, requiring to be wound once in eight days..." See An Empire in Time, Clocks and Clock Makers of Upstate New York , by G. Russell Oechsle and Helen Boyce, pp. 136-138.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-04-25
