Aaron Willard Jr. Mahogany Patent Timepiece or "Banjo" Clock

Description:

Aaron Willard Jr. Mahogany Patent Timepiece or "Banjo" Clock, Boston, Massachusetts, no. 842, c. 1815, painted iron roman numeral dial signed A. Willard Jr./Boston, barbed steel hands, gilded rope-molded case with Patent inscribed on waist glass and Neptune in a water chariot pulled by two stylized dolphins horses against a rising sun pendulum aperture, eight-day time-only movement with T-bridge suspension, through bolt attachment to case, recoil escapement, lead weight and brass-faced pendulum, ht. 33 1/2 in.
Estimate $2,500-4,500

Has weight, final, and pendulum . Glasses old replacements with flaking of lower glass. Numerals relined.


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