$2,252
Silas Hoadley Mahogany Miniature Alarm Timepiece, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1835-40, solid scrolled splat, free-standing stenciled columns flanking the wooden dial with Arabic numerals and looking glass below, paper dust cover and printed maker's label inside stating, First Quality Timepieces with Alarm, Pivots bushed with Ivory, Manufactured by Silas Hoadley, Plymouth, Conn. , thirty-hour time and alarm movement with two weights and pendulum, ht. 25 1/2 in. Formerly in the Irving Cooperman Collection. These rare clocks are illustrated and discussed in Bryan Rogers and Joseph Arvay, "The Hoadley Alarm Timepiece", NAWCC Bulletin , August 1996, pp. 501-4. No significant condition issues, loss of 1/2 in. of veneer off obj. left front foot, original components, dial hands etc.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-07-16
