X
Forgot Password

Forgot Password?
(Enter your email below.)


Cancel

Not a member?
Create your account today!

Search from over 100,000 items available at auction now


Advanced
Search
Learn how to bid

Fontaine's Auction Gallery: Exceptional Lighting, Antiques, Clocks, Watches & Mission Au: Lot 18

HOWARD & DAVIS ASTRONOMICAL REGULATOR

Total Views: 96

Estimated Price:

   $   

Realized Price:

   $   
pricesVerified

What is this symbol? This symbol indicates that this auction hose has verified this price result.

Register or log in to view price data

16" silvered dial signed "Howard & Davis Makers Boston", has the typical outside chapter ring for the minutes with Arabic 5 minute markers and a black minute marker chapter ring, small subsidiary hour dial with bold black Roman hour numerals and a subsidiary seconds bit with 10 second Arabic second markers with black second chapter ring, each w/ period blued hands showing some light tarnish, dial has some fading to the numbers and wear to the silver finish outside of the chapter ring near the bottom right. The clock has a massive top quality brass movement, Graham dead beat escapement w/ jeweled pallets, Geneva stop. Solid brass pulley, top quality brass weight, compensating "mercurial pendulum" w/ cut glass jars, all in good original condition. In a walnut case with crotch mahogany veneers, carved crests at the top and bottom of the walnut bezel, removable front door with arched glass sides, mirrored back and silvered beat indicator on wood brackets; in excellent original condition. Finish appears to be original and waxed. This clock was acquired by Greene Jewelers of Clinton Mass. around 1853. Strategically placed towns held reliable clocks which were used by railroad conductors to synchronize their watches. For this area of Worcester county, the clock chosen was this Howard & Davis timepiece. Serving the community for many decades, this landmark piece has remained in the same location for the past 150 years until it was moved to the gallery in Pittsfield, Mass to prepare it for auction.

Estimated Price:    $   

Additional Lot Information & Condition Report


Additional Upcoming Lots

Catalog Information

Auction Title

Exceptional Lighting, Antiques, Clocks, Watches & Mission Au

Auction Date

November 21, 2009

Location

1485 West Housatonic

Pittsfield, MA

USA

01201

Phone: 413.448.8922

Fax: 413 442 1550

Email: jobrien@fontaineauction.com

Pittsfield, MA, USA

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

View realized price and lot details for Lot 18: HOWARD & DAVIS ASTRONOMICAL REGULATOR from Fontaine's Auction Gallery's Exceptional Lighting, Antiques, Clocks, Watches & Mission Au. See additional auction price results for lots from this auction on the Fontaine's Auction Gallery profile page.

  • Sign Up For Free Email Updates

Thank you!
Why not register for a
FREE account today?