DESCRIPTION:
Thomas Perkins, Pittsburgh, Penn., tall clock "No. 31", 8 days, time, strike and calendar, weight driven movement in an inlaid and accented cherry case with mahogany and boxwood veneer, broken arch top with inlaid rosettes, delicate full columns on hood and Hepplewhite bracket base. The painted iron dial has moon phase, calendar aperture below center arbor, painted spandrels, and hand cut iron hands, c1810
CONDITION:
the case has been refinished and restored, according to Douglas Shaffer, who documented restoration on paper pasted inside trunk door. The finials and plinths are replacements. The Boston style dial is in excellent condition with some minor deterioration to moon phase and is purportedly at some point in the past to have a Samuel Curtis, Boston label. The weights, pendulum and winding key are period. In Bailey and Spittler's "Clockmakers and Watchmakers of America" Thomas H. Perkins is listed as coming from a prominent family of clockmakers based in Philadelphia. Perkins was at one time the Pittsburgh Postmaster. Ht 105 1/2"
ESTIMATE:
$8000
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$10000
PRICE SOLD:
$9000
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