Antique Seymour Williams and Porter Clock

Price Type: retail
Sold Date: 4/16/2001
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Column and Splat Shelf Clock c. 1835 Dimensions:32" tall by 17" wide. Maker/Mfgr./Author/Artist:Seymour, Williams and Porter, Farmington, Connecticut. Condition:Excellent; great case veneer and movement runs and strikes properly; great-almost perfect paper label inside the case. There is an age line or two across the painted surface of the original wooden dial. Circa:ca 1835 Materials:Mahogany veneer case, wood works movement; wooden painted dial; Lithographed portrait Description:a lithograph behind the lower door glass which appears to have been original, or almost so, to the clock. Originality of the N. Currier door glass design featuring the well-known Currier picture of 'HENRIETTA'. There is a hand-written presentation inscription on the back of the Currier print which lists the presenter's name as well as the person to whom she was giving the clock (probably a husband or father), and the date-February 11th, 1910. There is also a repair signature dated February 11th, 1913. Since the firm of Seymour, Williams and Porter began making clocks in Unionville, Connecticut around 1835, and made this particular clock after they had moved to new quarters in Farmington, Connecticut some years later, this clock may have had another design on the lower door glass. Most clocks of this type had either a "looking glass" (mirror) or a reverse painting in the door. However, the borders of the Currier print now on this door are within the putty (which also appears original to the clock). The Currier lithograph is at least 91 years old and therefore part of this clock for nearly a century. The wood movement runs well and the bell strikes the hours properly. The label inside the case, which bears the inscription of the printer, Joseph Hurlbut, Hartford, (see photographs), is in MINT condition and the original stencilling on both the top splat as well as the side half-columns is in an outstanding state of preservation.

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