Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2431Location: BostonDate / Time: November 01, 2008 3:00PM
Description:
Mahogany Empire Shelf Clock by Eli Terry, Jr. & Company, Terrysville, Connecticut, c. 1835, with full-length glazed door with looking glass, painted wooden dial with Roman numerals, printed maker's label inside backboard, thirty-hour brass time and strike movement with arched plates, wooden winding drums, count wheel mounted on great wheel, pendulum and two iron weights, ht. 22 3/4 in.
Estimate $700-900
Dial has been cleaned, gilding in numerals enhanced.