DESCRIPTION:
Walter Durfee, Providence, Rhode Island, patent timepiece or banjo clock, mahogany case with gilt frames and presentation bracket, lower tablet with battleships, throat glass with gilt eagle and stars and bars shield, case top with gilt composition eagle, signed Arabic numeral white painted dial, steel barbed hands, 8 days, E. Howard & Co. timepiece movement with damascened pendulum, cast iron weight, c1910
CONDITION:
minor losses to gesso and gilding, case bottom with joint separation, both glasses with touch ups and flaking, finial dirty and with repaired wing tips, bezel with some tarnish and loss of lacquer, dial with crazing, minor scratches, and with minor flaking, extensions of case sides inside box with repairs, and extra drilled holes, lower baffle with repaired split, movement good, ticks, pendulum ball good, rod with relief on back, weight good, Ht 42"
ESTIMATE:
$2500
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$3500
PRICE SOLD:
$1900
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