Eli Terry & Sons Eight-Day Mahogany Shelf Clock, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1825, with elaborately carved fruit basket with acanthus leaves cresting, stenciled full- length half columns flanking the wooden dial with Roman numerals, seconds dial, and raised gilded gesso decoration in the spandrels, the lower section with reverse painted tablet depicting a cathedral and a Greek revival building within a stenciled border, printed label inside backboard stating in part Eight-Day Clocks Invented by Eli Terry Made and Sold at Plymouth, Connecticut, Eli Terry & Sons., eight-day time and strike mahogany plate movement with count wheel strike, two iron weights and pendulum, ht. 36 in. This clock is illustrated in Dworetsky and Dickstein, Horology Americana, p. 124.
Eli Terry & Sons Eight-Day Mahogany Shelf Clock, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1825, with elaborately carved fruit basket with acanthus leaves cresting, stenciled full- length half columns flanking the wooden dial with Roman numerals, seconds dial, and raised gilded gesso decoration in the spandrels, the lower section with reverse painted tablet depicting a cathedral and a Greek revival building within a stenciled border, printed label inside backboard stating in part Eight-Day Clocks Invented by Eli Terry Made and Sold at Plymouth, Connecticut, Eli Terry & Sons., eight-day time and strike mahogany plate movement with count wheel strike, two iron weights and pendulum, ht. 36 in. This clock is illustrated in Dworetsky and Dickstein, Horology Americana, p. 124.
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