Antique Clocks Price

AN ENGLISH CERAMIC SHELF CLOCK, with courting couple reserve. H: 15-1/2 W: 15″ D: 4-1/4″. Images Click on thumbnails to see larger images:

Lenzkirch Mahogany Bracket Clock w/No Shelf: mahogany with brass ornaments and a fancy silvered 4 1/2″ dial. The time and gong striking movement is signed and numbered 958014. (An ornament above the dial is missing. The front board is split. The top finials do not match those shown in the Lenzkirch book. The brass has […]

Rosewood Miniature Venetian Shelf Clock by E. Ingraham and an Empty Case, Bristol, Connecticut, bronze-painted half-columns flanking the 3 1/2 in. dia. paper on zinc dial and lower transfer decorated tablet, maker’s label inside backboard, 30-hour time and strike movement, ht. 13 in., with a smaller additional case only, gilt half-columns flanking the 3 in. […]

ANSONIA, AMERICAN CARVED WALNUT SHELF CLOCK, C. 1890, H 22 1/2″, W 13″:Door decorated with floral & bird gilt tracery; 2 key winds; paper face with Arabic numerals; and pendulum & key. Images Click on thumbnails to see larger images:

15 1/2″ H, 10″ W, 4 1/4″ D Images Click on thumbnails to see larger images:

The pasted label advertises the maker: John Birge (1785- 1862), and according to our sources worked alone in Bristol, Connecticut after 1840, which is when this traditionally appointed shelf clock was made. He also had strong associations with Joesph Ives, and owned some of Ives’ patents. An outstanding carved crest shows two inwardly facing cornucopia […]