83. $1000
Japy Freres & Cie., France, ca 1870, carriage clock with sweep seconds, ornamented case with figures forming the handle and embossed decorations on the top, corners, and base. Case is 8 inches high to top of handle. Roman numeral white enamel dial with Arabic alarm chapter, week going brass movement with sweep seconds and lever platform, striking on a gong half hours and hours. The dial and four hands are perfect and original, front and side beveled glasses are good, back beveled glass has a chip at upper left corner. Movement is running, striking, and repeating correctly, alarm train functional. Movement is signed, “Japy Freres & Cie / Exposition 1855 Grand Med. / D’Honneur”. $1500-$3000.
84. $1100
French brass and glass carriage clock with an 8-day time and bell striking movement, also with two calendar dials, day of the month and day of the week. It is running and striking half hours and hours on a nickel bell and the calendars are functioning correctly. All the hands appear to be original to the case. It is 5 ½ inches wide and high. Black marble base, brass case, glass only on the front and entire top, back and sides are brass. Both glasses are beveled and very good. The brass has scratches and shows wear on the back hinged door. Front door has a knob, back door does not. Not signed anywhere, movement and case are numbered, “1861”. $1500-$2500.
82. $2000
“Bolviller a Paris”, signed on the porcelain dial and movement of this unusual and early brass carriage clock, ca 1848-1858. Bolviller had some connection with Japy Freres in the early clockmaking years. Brass case is 7 inches high with gilt castings and heavily engraved back door and dial plate. Both the front and back doors are hinged, with original pull knobs. Back door also has a movable plate inside the door accessible from the outside allowing access to winding arbors and hand set, without opening the door. The 8-day movement runs and strikes. Strikes one time on both half hours and hours. Most unusual and probably earliest of this group of rare carriage clocks. $2500-$5000.
81. $250
French marble clock, ca 1880. Finally we can offer you a clock
that will run silently and not ding ding and wake you up. It has an 8-day time only movement, unsigned, and running with a correct
type pendulum. The black marble case is 16 inches wide and 10 inches high, has some colored marble sparsely inlaid on the case front,
and has gold filled incised designs on the front. There is a small chip on the base, back right corner. Beveled glass in a brass sash
over the one-piece porcelain dial and nice French hands. There is no cover over the round opening on the back. $300-$400.
79. $150
Ansonia Clock Company plush mantel clock, “Florentine, No. 1”, ca 1886. They made a series of 6 plush mantel clocks and a series of wall hanging plush clocks. These are very rarely found in original condition because the velvet/plush deteriorated and fell off. We have sold at least one that had been recovered with velvet. This one surprisingly is in pretty decent original condition. There is maroon plus on front and sides and the full label on the back. Adorned on the front, top, bottom and four corners with brass decorations. In the brass sash is a beveled glass. The dial feels like cardboard and is painted with the company name, and has recessed numerals. Notice below the dial the artist’s easel, it has a painting on it. The movement is 8-day, running and striking half hours on a gong. Underneath the case is a sliding door to store or hang the pendulum. Ly-Ansonia #2411. $250-$500.
80. $350
French marble clock, ca about 1885. Petite and well made with
primarily black marble, trimmed with strips of multicolored marble, standing 12 inches high and is 13 inches wide. On the front are
etched designs that are gold filled. No breaks or reglued sections evident. This piece is so heavy I would bet there has been some
regluing has taken place somewhere. There is a tiny chip in the black marble piece on the top. Nice two-piece porcelain dial, Brocot
escapement, good original hands, and a flat beveled glass in a brass sash. The perforated brass back door and pendulum bob are correct.
Round French, eight-day movement is running, striking a Cathedral gong on the half hours and hours and is unsigned. $350-$500.