Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2431Location: BostonDate / Time: November 01, 2008 3:00PM
Description:
Tiger Maple Patent Timepiece or "Banjo" Clock by Foster Campos, Pembroke, Massachusetts, with cross-banded inlaid frames enclosing reverse-paintings on glass, the lower depicting "Bass Farm", 7 1/2 in painted iron dial signed Foster S. Campos, Pembroke, Mass., eight-day timepiece with lead weight and pendulum, ht. 42 1/2 in.
Note: Bass Farm, Antrim, New Hampshire was formerly the home of clock collector Herbert Nilson.
Estimate $1,500-3,000