703.           $50

“Seth Thomas / Thomaston, Conn.”, copied from the label inside this early OG case, ca 1863. The veneered case is 26” high, very nice rosewood veneer around the outer sides, front edges, and door edges. The lighter wood around the outside of the door is probably just because they laid the wood grain different. If not rosewood it is very attractive, and unlike any wood in my large collection of wood samples. Original glasses, bottom with some flaking, original metal dial is clean but has some paint chipping, good pair of hands, and pair of period iron weights, pendulum bob, and winding key. 30-hour brass movement is signed, complete and operational. It strikes hours on a coil gong. The alarm movement strikes an iron bell. Ly-Seth Thomas, pages 652-653. $50-$100.