Sale 1359
New York
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8 April 2004
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF HALSTED B. VANDER POEL (lots 150-191)
Price realised
USD 8,962
Estimate
A CHARLES II BRASS STRIKING LANTERN CLOCK BY SAMUEL BETTS, LONDON, CIRCA 1670 AND ALTERED The dial signed Samuel Betts Londini within the foliate engraved center with blued steel tulip-form hand, lacking alarm disc, narrow Roman chapter ring with trident half hour markers, the going train with verge escapement, the strike train with countwheel and strike on a bell secured by four straps to the urn finials within a fret-work gallery; alarm train removed, later backplate, on a later shaped oak bracket, bearing inventory disk 349 to the bracket The clock: 9in. (13cm.) high, 3¼in. (8.5cm.) wide, 3in. (7.5cm.) deep
Provenance
with Arthur S. Vernay, Inc., New York.
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