Elmer Stennes Pillar & Scroll Clock

Elmer Stennes Pillar & Scroll Clock

Estimate:
[restrict paid=ture]$800 – $1,200[/restrict]
Auctioneer:
[restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]
Sold Price:
[restrict paid=ture]$400[/restrict]
Sold Date:
[restrict paid=ture]8:00 AM – Apr 27, 2013[/restrict]

Elmer Stennes Pillar & Scroll Clock. Painted metal dial has a 10 in. chapter ring with black Arabic hour numbers, gilt beaded minute markers, floral spandrels and pierced black hands, painted bee mark below the chapter ring; brass spring driven movement has rack & snail strike mechanism and strikes on a single strait chime, has a brass pendulum. In a mahogany pillar and scroll case with maple inlay in the crest, brass finials, turned side columns and valance feet; reverse painted lower tablet with oval aperture exposing the pendulum bob and original paper label in the back of the case which reads Pillar & Scroll Clock, Invented by Eli Terry 1814, Made and Sold at Weymouth, Massachusetts by Elmer O. Stennes. Has some minor loss to the veneer. 30 in. high x 17.25 in. wide x 4 in. deep.