Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2502Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 01, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Mahogany Quarter-Chiming Tall Clock, Germany, circa 1900, scroll top case with carved rosettes, free-standing fluted columns flanking the brass dial with Arabic numerals, applied pierced decoration, subsidiary dials for Chime-Silent and Westminster-Whittington selection and moon's age in the arch, eight-day weight-powered movement chiming quarters on eight bells or four gongs, pendulum and three brass-cased weights, ht. 98 1/2 in.
Estimate $8,000-12,000
No significant repairs or replacements, one finial reglued, brass weights in old lacquer, movement in running condition.