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Eli Terry & Sons pillar & scroll, 1823-1831. A pillar & scroll by the master and his sons, Eli Jr. and Henry. Junior left in 1831 to form his own firm; Henry and his dad continued for a year or so as E. Terry & Son, and then Dad retired, and Henry took over under his own name “at the old manufactory”. Like all Villet-restored clocks, the 28-inch case is clean, the glasses old, and the movement runs and strikes. Here the scroll-top may be a replacement and the putty has been replaced on the glasses. The brass urn finials are solid on wooden posts, the tablet is a repaint. The wooden dial is clean with some loss of decoration below the mainstem; note the American-style shields in the corners. The numbering may have been strengthened; the hands are correct to style but the minute hand looks short. The 30-hour, time-and-strike wooden movement is running, driven by two old weights. A good label. $400-$600.