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370 (with detail view)368.Butler & Henderson & Company Pillar and Scroll Shelf Clock,Clement, Nova Scotia, c. 1829-30, with scroll-top case, freestandingturned columns flanking the painted wooden dial with Arabic numerals,floral and raised gilt decoration, lower reverse-painted tablet withstarburst pattern border on a green ground, classical garden scene andpendulum aperture, printed maker’s label inside stating in part PatentClocks Made and Sold at Clement Nova Scotia by Butler Henderson &Co., thirty-hour time and strike wooden movement with pendulum boband two iron weights, ht. 31 1/2 in.Note: According to Spittlers and Chris H. Bailey, AmericanClockmakers and Watchmakers, p. 55-6, Butler & Henderson were inpartnership 1829-30 selling clocks purchased from Samuel Terry.$2,000-4,000369.Eli Terry & Sons Mahogany Alarm Shelf Clock, Plymouth,Connecticut, c. 1825, full-length door with looking glass in the lowersection, wooden dial with Arabic numerals, raised gilt spandrels, centerwith basket of flowers and gilded garland, engraved silvered brassalarm setting disc, printed maker’s label inside backboard stating PatentClocks invented by Eli Terry Made and Sold at Plymouth Connecticutby E. Terry & Sons, thirty-hour time, countwheel strike and “windowshade” alarm mounted on the bottom board of the case, ht. 22 1/2 in.Provenance: Donald C. Dean Collection.Literature: The present clock is illustrated in Brooks Palmer, Book ofAmerican Clocks, plate 190; this rare form is illustrated and discussed inKenneth D. Roberts and Snowden Taylor, Eli Terry and the ConnecticutShelf Clock, 2nd revised edition, pp. 110-12.$5,000-8,000370.Silas Hoadley “Upside-Down” Mahogany Pillar and Scroll ShelfClock, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1825, the scroll-top case with turnedcolumns flanking the full-length glazed door, painted wooden dial withArabic numerals, painted fruit spandrels and country scene insidethe chapter ring, lower reverse-painted tablet with gilded border andpendulum aperture, printed maker’s label inside stating Franklin Clockswith the improvement of bushing the pivots with Ivory, Arranged andManufactured by Silas Hoadley, Plymouth, Conn., thirty-hour wooden“upside-down” movement with countwheel strike, pendulum and twoweights, ht. 29 1/2 in.$6,000-8,000