In the 1840s, Elias Ingraham created this clock with a pointed Gothic-style “roof,” two or four spires, and decorated glass tablet. The clocks used the newly developed brass springs and were tremendously popular; in fact, they are still made today.
E. N. Welch steeple shelf clocks; left, rosewood case, 30-hour, time, strike, & alarm, 8 x 15″ h. $ Right, banded mahogany, 30-hour, time, strike, & alarm, ca. 1880,10 x 19″ h. $200.
