Description
Jul 2021 - #222
Antique American Clocks
Seth Thomas "Putnam",
Note the late manufacture date on this "carved column & cornice"
clock - it is a Seth Thomas reissue in the style of the early 1800's clocks.
The 36.25-inch case is veneered in mahogany with
carved mahogany half-columns and splat.
Both glasses are original, including the wonderful tablet.
The dial is zinc, painted
in a ST 1890's fashion with the Seth Thomas name at the bottom; the hands are as shown in the catalog illustration (Ly,
Seth Thomas
Clocks & Movements
, Vol. 1, page 515).
The tablet differs from that shown in the catalog illustration but is along the same
The ST 8-day, time-and-strike brass lyre movement is running and striking on the standing cathedral gong, driven by two
8-day iron weights.
There was a similar model, the Yorktown, that was spring-driven.
There is a good paper label inside.
I can find no sales for this model (one sale at Harris was mis-identified).
So we're going with $250 to start.
Record courtesy of AntiqueAmericanClocks.com