Silas Hoadley Mahogany Miniature Alarm Timepiece

Description:

Silas Hoadley Mahogany Miniature Alarm Timepiece, Plymouth, Connecticut, 1835-40, stenciled eagle splat and carved pineapple finials, stenciled free-standing columns flanking the painted wooden dial with Arabic numerals, raised gilt and painted decoration and lower looking glass, paper dust cover and printed label stating, First Quality Timepieces with Alarm, Pivots bushed with Ivory, Manufactured and Sold by Silas Hoadley, Plymouth, Conn., thirty-hour time and alarm wooden movement with two weights and pendulum, ht. 26 in.

Literature: These rare clocks are illustrated and discussed in Bryan Rogers and Joseph Arvay, "The Hoadley Alarm Timepiece", NAWCC Bulletin, August 1996, pp. 501-4.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

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