Miniature Triple-Decker Shelf Clock by Forestville Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Connecticut, with basket of fruit splat, grained and gilded half-columns flanking both doors, reverse-painted tablets depicting classical architecture, 8 1/2 in. painted zinc dial, printed maker’s label on backboard, thirty-hour time and strike weight-powered movement with countwheel, recoil escapement, and two cast iron weights, ht. 30 in.
Condition report
Condition: Replacement crest, plinths, feet, and top reverse painted glass, touch-up around winding holes on dial, lower painted glass is the original.
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