Birge & Fuller "Candlestick" Steeple Clock

Description:

Birge & Fuller "Candlestick" Steeple Clock, c. 1845, the mahogany case with reverse-painted tablets in doors, painted zinc Roman numeral dial, over the brass, eight-day, time and strike movement, interior label marked in part Patent Accelerating Lever Spring Thirty Hour Brass Clocks, ht. 22 in.
Estimate $500-700

Dial and upper glass re-painted. Movement replaced with eight-day Waterbury and lever spring is missing.


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