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May Antique Auction

BENJAMIN MORRIS TALL CASE CLOCK

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Start price: $10

Estimated price: $3,000 - $5,000

Buyer's premium: 23%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

Logo BENJAMIN MORRIS TALL CASE CLOCK

Broken arch scroll top with rosettes and with 3 turned wood finials, fluted columns, moon dial, gold calligraphic spandrels, and side lights. Engraved plaque Benjamin Morris. The works have a painted calendar dial and 8 day movement. Bio of Benjamin Morris, clockmaker inside that reads circa 1760.

17" X 10 1/2" X 98"


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flourished
Tall
Morris
Benjamin
about
Made
clocks
(Pennsylvania
lived
and
son,
Enos
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in
S
admitted
Hilltown
Morris
Clocks
a
great
number
of
Bucks
Pennsylvania
His
trade
the
with
father,
but
law
learned
to
his
studied
in
the
bar
1780
and
Clockmakers
by
George
Eckhardt)

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