Mahogany Gilt Front Patent Timepiece or "Banjo" Clock

Description:

Mahogany Gilt Front Patent Timepiece or "Banjo" Clock, Concord, Massachusetts, c. 1815, mahogany case with five-piece chestnut backboard, painted iron Arabic numeral dial over the rope-molded gilded frames enclosing reverse-painted tablets, the waist glass flanked by brass side ornaments and marked Patent, the lower hinged box glass of a lattice pattern with a gilded basket of flowers, eight-day, time-only movement with lead weight, brass-faced pendulum, and swallow tail tie down, ht. 32 1/2 in.

Provenance: Terry and Karen Brotherton.
Estimate $800-1,200

Glasses are old replacements, dial cleaned, relined and heightened.


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