Mahogany Patent Timepiece or “Banjo” Clock, Tifft, North Attleboro, Massachusetts, with rope molded gilt frames enclosing reverse-painted glasses, the lower depicting Mount Vernon, brass side ornaments, bezel over the painted iron dial inscribed “Tifft”, carved and gilded pedestal with eight-day brass time-only weight-powered movement, ht. 42 in.
Condition: lower gilded pedestal, rope molded frames, brass side ornaments, painted glasses and finial are replacements.
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