Mahogany Shelf Clock by Silas B. Terry and Company, Terryville, Connecticut, c. 1840, the box case with reverse-painted tablet, painted zinc dial with Roman numerals, paper dust cover inside backboard, 30-hour brass timepiece with detatched wooden fusee, ht. 11 in.
Literature: This clock is illustrated in The American Clock, by William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, p. 121, plate 250.
Condition report
Condition: Dial is a replacement. Reverse-painted tablet is the original.
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