Hanover, Massachusetts
Inscribed “WARRANTED FOR COL: HARDY CROSS./ by John Bailey Jun: Hanover”
Item Date: 1815-1820
Measurement: Height: 92.5” (including 3.5” finial), Width: 22 7/8”, Depth: 10 5/8”
Material: Mahogany, white pine; eight-day brass movement with solid plates and anchor recoil escapement; sheet -iron false plate.
Item Condition: Excellent; old surface; original finials
Literature: Harbor & Home / Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts / 1710-1850, Catalog no. 86, pp. 251, 252, 253, 254. Brock Jobe, Gary Sullivan, & Jack O’Brian After an apprenticeship Bailey established his clockmaking business in Hanover…a sizeable portion of his trade was with the South. His export goods include a well- preserved tall clock raised on French feet and inscribed for Colonel Hardy Cross who lived in eastern Virginia [just over the North Carolina border]. The Colonel likely ordered this clock through one of Bailey’s Carolina agents. The southeastern Massachusetts case displays a Federal design except for the distinct loop-work fret. The clock features a beautiful moon-phase dial of Boston manufacture.
Price: $14,500
SKU 449-79
For More Information, Please Contact David Hillier at 978-597-8084 or email drh@aaawt.com.
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