Silas B. Terry Balance Wheel Steeple Clock

Description:

Silas B. Terry Balance Wheel Steeple Clock, Terryville, Connecticut, c. 1845, oversized "sharp Gothic" shelf clock with full-length door, the upper glazed section over the painted wooden Roman numeral dial with openings for seconds and the 3-in. vertical balance wheel, the lower with transfer-decorated and painted tablet with royal blue background, printed maker's label inside backboard stating in part, Balance Clocks Invented by Eli Terry/Manufactured by Silas B. Terry, Terryville, Connecticut, thirty-hour, strap brass, fusee movement regulated by a brass balance, ht. 24 1/2 in.

Provenance: Anthony J. Sposato; Terry and Karen Brotherton.

Literature: This clock is illustrated and discussed in New England Clocks and Watches/15th Annual NAWCC Convention Exhibition, 1959, p. 23; NAWCC Bulletin Vol. IV, No. 3, Whole #33, pp. 115-116; Brooks Palmer, A Treasury of American Clocks, p. 149; Horology Americana, p. 183; and Classic American Clocks, p. 10; Horological Rarities of Space City '99, p. 28 (exhibited).
Estimate $8,000-12,000

Minor losses to painted wooden dial.


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