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Edward Duffield Philadelphia Chippendale Tall Case Clock
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18th century, brass dial engraved "Edward Duffield Philadelphia", arched dial with applied spandrels, brass eight day movement, seconds sweep and date aperture, set in a waisted walnut case with arched bonnet, inset quarter columns and paneled base, two weights, winder, and pendulum present, 89 x 22-1/2 x 11 in.
Provenance: Collection of C.L. Prickett
Rare American Chippendale Musical Tall Case Clock
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Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1780, with painted and silvered brass dial inscribed "Highwater at Boston, North America", seven tunes, seconds sweep, date indicator, set in an early "Roxbury" mahogany case with pierced fretwork and brass finials, over blind fretwork frieze, with three weights and pendulum, 103-1/2 x 23 x 10-1/2 in.
Provenance: Sold Pook & Pook, January 6, 2007 lot 689 for $23,000; Collection of C.L. Prickett
Solomon Parke Tall Case Clock, Philadelphia, PA
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Solomon Parke Tall Case Clock, Philadelphia, PA . Cherry case with shell carved door, fluted quarter columns & carved rosettes. Original signed & painted metal dial. 8 day time and strike weight driven brass movement with moon phase dial and second bit hand. Ht. 7′ 11″.
John Wood, Philadelphia, Tall Case Clock
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John Wood, Philadelphia, Tall Case Clock. Chippendale carved walnut case, alterations. Brass moon phase calendar dial, second bit hand. 8 day time & strike weight driven movement, associated to case. Ht. 8′ 3″
Peter Stretch, Philadelphia, Tall Case Clock
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Peter Stretch, Philadelphia, Tall Case Clock
early 19th century. Carved cherry associated case. 8 day brass movement.
Ht. 90 1/2 in. W 20 1/2 in. x 11 in.
Philadelphia Federal Mahogany Tall Case Clock
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by Patton & Jones working in the early 19th century. The piece has a very handsome case with broken arch pediment centered by turned wood finial above simulated moon phase dial having what looks to be the first surface above lower case having a single hinged door which is nicely figured mahogany atop lower case all resting on a French foot. H98" W23" D11"
Tall Case Clock By Griffith Owen, Philadelphia.
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A great original clock circa 1790 – 1800. Hand painted dial and moon phase. View a copy of a letter that the consignors great aunt sent to her father, her nephew, when she transferred the clock to him in 1966: “The clock was given as a wedding gift to Rebecca Brooke [my father’s great great grandmother] when [she] married Rees Thomas March the 29th 1810 …,?? she writes. “After his marriage, Rees Thomas became proprietor of the famous Gulph Mills … . He was a man of high standing and one of the original anti-slavery men of Montgomery County.?? The Thomases were Welsh Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania before the Revolution. Rebecca Brooke’s father, Captain Benjamin Brooke, according to the letter, was “a distinguished officer and patriot of the Revolutionary War??. From a Rye, NY estate. – Dimensions: 103" h x 19" x 11".