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Simon Willard Presentation banjo clock.

Simon Willard mahogany eglomise banjo clock. Dial inscribed in India ink verso: ” Presented to Henry Little & Sophia Goodale Wedding October 27, 1816 by Simon Willard, Roxbury” and other notations. Has battle scene between the Boher and the Enterprise, restorations. 33″ x 10″. Restoration to glass and dial, tablets replaced. Images Click on thumbnails […]

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JEAN SIMON DEUERBENIE BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK

JEAN SIMON DEUERBENIE, DIRECTOIRE BLACK & DORE PATINATED BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, C. 1799, H 18 1/2″:W 13 1/2″. “Noble Sauvage”, titled “America”. By the French artist Jean Simon Deuerbenie. White enamel dial signed “Dumont a Paris” An identical clock is illustrated in Elike Niehuser, “French Bronze Clocks”, PA, 1999, p. 147, figs. 237, 238, as […]

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