$1,778
Eli Terry & Sons Eight-Day Mahogany Shelf Clock, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1825, with elaborately carved fruit basket with acanthus leaves cresting, stenciled full- length half columns flanking the wooden dial with Roman numerals, seconds dial, and raised gilded gesso decoration in the spandrels, the lower section with reverse painted tablet depicting a cathedral and a Greek revival building within a stenciled border, printed label inside backboard stating in part Eight-Day Clocks Invented by Eli Terry, Made and Sold at Plymouth, Connecticut, Eli Terry & Sons. , eight-day time and strike mahogany plate movement with count wheel strike, two iron weights and pendulum, ht. 36 in. This clock is illustrated in Dworetsky and Dickstein, Horology Americana , p. 124. Overall the clock is in wonderful condition with carving, painted dial and glass, label and movement just as it should be. Weights are 30- hour ogee type; tape applied to the joints on the backboard to keep dust out.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16
