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Willard School No. 1 size hanging banjo clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$2,500 – $3,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Schmitt Horan & Co.[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$3,800[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]May 06, 2023[/restrict]

Massachusetts or New Hampshire, Willard school "No. 1" size hanging banjo clock or patent timepiece in a mahogany case with reverse painted and gold leafed tablets, 12in roman numeral painted metal dial, 8 day, time only precision movement driven by a single brass weight with unusual pendulum rating and anti-friction crutch mechanisms, gilded pendulum rod

Willard School No. 1 Banjo Hanging Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,500 – $2,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Schmitt Horan & Co.[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$3,400[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]Nov 20, 2022[/restrict]

Massachusetts or New Hampshire, Willard school "No. 1" size hanging banjo clock or patent timepiece in a mahogany case with reverse painted and gold leafed throat and lower tablets, 12in roman numeral painted metal dial, 8 day, time only precision movement driven by a single brass weight with unusual pendulum rating and anti-friction crutch mechanisms, gilded pendulum rod

Willard School No. 1 Banjo Hanging Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,500 – $2,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Schmitt Horan & Co.[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$3,400[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]Nov 20, 2022[/restrict]

Simon Willard & Son Banjo Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$4,000 – $6,000[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Fontaine's Auction Gallery[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$13,500[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]Oct 23, 2021[/restrict]

Simon Willard & Son Banjo Clock
circa 1825
the mahogany case with reverse painted tablets, the brass 8-day time only weight driven movement was likely made by Elnathan Taber for them as it has the typical shaped click with finger latch, dial signed "Simon Willard & Son, No. 4689"
32 x 10 x 3 1/4 inches

Literature: Foley, Paul J. Willard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800-1900. Roxbury Village Pub., 2002, p. 46.

Willard hanging banjo clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$800 – $1,200[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Schmitt Horan & Co.[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,000[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]Nov 20, 2022[/restrict]

Boston, (Willard attribution), hanging patent timepiece or banjo clock, mahogany and gilt case, painted iron dial, barbed hands, 8 day, weight driven brass movement. This is a Boston made case with thin sides to the head and the other frame parts, dial is attached to the head with two L-turns, T-bridge movement is attached with through bolts, mahogany backboard

Willard hanging banjo clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$800 – $1,200[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Schmitt Horan & Co.[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$1,000[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]Nov 20, 2022[/restrict]

Waterbury Willard No. 1 Banjo Clock

Estimate:: [restrict paid=ture]$300 – $600[/restrict]

Auctioneer:: [restrict paid=ture]Tom Harris Auctions[/restrict]

Sold Price:: [restrict paid=ture]$475[/restrict]

Sold Date:: [restrict paid=ture]7:00 AM – Oct 06, 2007[/restrict]

Waterbury Willard No. 1 Banjo Clock: 8″ porcelain dial with a time only weight driven movement. Flemish oak case with gilt paint and decoration. Made around 1912.

(Wound tight.)

42″ L

Clock is running at time of listing, but not guaranteed to continue.