ClockPrices.ComA Morrill Federal Wall Clock, with an eight day
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with an eight day movement and having a mahogany case with gilt turned and rosette block half columns around the front, a verre eglomise painted panel surrounding the round face over a mirrored lower panel and with a paper label to the interior for the Benjamin Morrill Company of Boscawen, New Hampshire. 28 1/2″ high, 14″ wide, 4 1/2″ deep. Some gilding loss.
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New Hampshire Mirror Clock Attributed to Benjamin
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New Hampshire Mirror Clock Attributed to Benjamin Morrill, c. 1830, split and turned columns flanking the reverse painting on glass, painted iron dial with Roman numerals and looking glass below, eight-day timepiece with iron weight and brass faced pendulum bob, ht. 30 in.
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Benjamin Morrill Mirror Clock, Boscawen, New Hamps
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Benjamin Morrill Mirror Clock, Boscawen, New Hampshire, c. 1830, the pine case with turned gilt and smoke grained half columns flanking the painted iron dial with Roman numerals inscribed B. Morrill, Boscawen reverse painted dial surround with fanciful foliage and looking glass below, eight-day time only movement with recoil escapement and iron weight, ht. 30 in.
The “New Hampshire mirror clock” was produced by many makers during the first half of the 19th century and are found with a puzzling array of movement variations. Morrill was perhaps best known and no doubt sold his movements to other makers. See Charles S. Parsons, Note: New Hampshire Clocks and Clockmakers, p. 363 for an identical movement to the present example marked “J. Chadwick”.
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Condition: Minor inpainting on dial, looking glass and reverse painted table are original, age consistent wear on decorated columns, first surface decoration and finish.
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RARE NEW HAMPSHIRE MIRROR CLOCK – Bracket Clock by
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RARE NEW HAMPSHIRE MIRROR CLOCK – Bracket Clock by Benjamin Morrill of Boscawen, NH. The hinged front has a mirror in the lower part, a (replaced) eglomise spandrel in the upper, the works are signed on the painted iron face. The case is decorated with gold and black split columns, and has corner blocks with brass rosettes. 30″ x 14″ x 4 1/2″. Restored, good running condition. Includes original key. Morrill (1794-1857) is credited with the invention of the 8-day “Wheelbarrow” movement, original to New Hampshire clocks, having the pendulum on the right and the weight on the left. He opened his first shop in 1816, stopped making clocks sometime in the late 1840s.
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