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Elnathan Taber Mahogany Tall Clock, Roxbury, Massachusetts, c.<br />
1790, case attributed to Stephen Badlam (1751-1815), dial signed<br />
by John Minott (1772-1826) J Minott 89, painted iron dial signed<br />
Elnathan Taber, Roman numerals, floral spandrels and moon’s age<br />
dial in the arch, pierced and blind fret at the cornice, brass stop-fluted<br />
freestanding columns flanking the dial, banded inlaid rectangular waist<br />
door with cut corners and fan spandrels flanked by brass stop-fluted<br />
quarter-columns, the base with banded, line, segmented, and fan inlays<br />
all on ogee feet, eight-day time and strike movement with tin-cased<br />
weights and pendulum, ht. 97 in.<br />
Note: The front plate of the movement is inscribed This clock cleaned<br />
by E. Taber Roxbury, 27 Nov, 1812, it then being 20 years old.<br />
Marked Stephen Badlam cases are known with blind fret, complicated<br />
inlays, waist doors, and side frets with cut corners. For a closely<br />
related case and signed Minott dial, see Robinson and Burt, The Willard<br />
House and Clock Museum and Willard Family Clockmakers, p. 57. For<br />
a documented Badlam case see, p. 88.<br />
Information on dial painter John Minott is found in Paul J. Foley,<br />
Willard’s Patent Timepieces, pp. 283-84.<br />
$10,000-15,000<br />
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