Antique Benjamin Torrey Clock

Price Type: auction
Sold Date: 6/1/2001
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Catalog Description:

BENJAMIN TORREY SHELF CLOCK (MA c. 1820) Mahogany case in old finish with original brass paw feet. Old reverse painted tablets, and original painted dish dial. Signed on dial: warranted for Joshua Whitmarsh, Private-Captain Samuel Wardpis Co., served in Revolutionary War, 1776. (Paper with provenance included.) Rare eight-day, time-and-strike, weight-driven, brass movement. A very nice example. (A nearly identical example was advertised by G.W. Samaha, in Jan. 1 977 issue of Magazine Antiques, on p. 118.) Provenance: Christies, NY, 1 993. Height: 36 inches, Width: 13 inches Provenance: ex Collection of Peter Zaharis, Ithaca, NY

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