Seth Thomas Pillar and Scroll Shelf Clock

Description:

Seth Thomas Pillar and Scroll Shelf Clock, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1825, the mahogany scroll-top case with painted wooden Arabic numeral dial with basket of fruit below the center, reverse-painted tablet of a town center with pendulum aperture, freestanding columns flanking the door and French feet with scalloped apron, thirty-hour time and strike movement with count-wheel strike regulated by a pendulum and powered by two iron weights, ht. 31 1/2 in.
Estimate $800-1,200

Feet, scrolls, and dial are undisturbed, brass finials appear to be period, paint loss on lower tablet


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