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Wadsworths, Lounsbury, & Turners pillar & scroll, 1827-1829. A second example from this group of five in Litchfield, CT. Litchfield is just southwest of Torrington, northwest of Thomaston, and within a stone’s throw of the hub of the early wooden movement clock makers surrounding Bristol CT. The 31-inch case has good mahogany veneer all around and a clean, polished finish. The scroll-top has had several regluings of the scroll tips, and I think the feet are replacements. The skirt looks original. Working latch and key, and the brass urn finials are on brass posts. Both glasses are old but probably replacements, with a very colorful tablet. The wooden dial is clean with glorious gilded and colored spandrels; the hands are proper and period. The 30-hour wooden time-and-strike movement is running and striking without issue, driven by two period weights and an old pendulum bob. There is a good label inside. This is perhaps the prettiest P&S in the sale. $250–$400.