Antiques Roadshow; Appraisal

It's a tall case clock. We bought it in auction in Charlotte North Carolina. Twenty five twenty six years ago. It has all wooden gears so from what we understand from a clock shop in Charlotte where we took to get Queen that probably dates it sometime in the early 1900s. No mate of an 18 20 because that's when they started going to mill them gears. So that's about the extent of what I know. Well that's a little misconstrued brassworks clock's not metal but brass works. Tall case clocks earlier than these wooden works clock right. These were made because they were less expensive than brass. But as a result they don't run as well because they they the gears accept moisture and and they'll swell up and stop so they're very temperamental as a result. They do run well when you have a nice arid climate. What attracted you to this clock to buy it. Well I mean the face is I think very attractive. And just the simplicity of the case itself. And Ted wanted to pay for this clock originally 25 years ago.

We paid a thousand dollars an auction for it. Like took the works out of the case so we could kind of talk about both. This was made by Elva Hart and Robinson Truesdale and they were brother in laws who had a working relationship in a clock factory in Hartford Ohio of all places most people would think this would be Hartford could have it right right. So they were working from about hundred twenty seven to eight hundred thirty five. And that's how I moved it later. It's a little later than you initially thought. OK. But if we go to the case first it doesn't have a lot of redeeming qualities really. Pretty simple. It's a popular case that was most definitely painted at one time. And when you have a poplar or a pine it's usually in the case of a clock that was painted because it's a secondary wood. It was a mahogany gently a wooden. And it may have had a grain painting decoration on the door or on the entire case. But as far as the case is concerned it's a very tough sell in today's market. It's something that. I don't think would bring $500 if it was just a

case today. But it's really not about the case. It's really about this wonderful dial that to have here in the wooden works movement and I could just. Show you the wooden works here. You can see normally an earlier clock generally they would be all brass. This clock winds with a pull up so it has a counterweight. And you open up the the way store of the case. Right. And you pull the pull the weight up. And it's called the 30 hour pull up that runs for one day on one winding or support brassworks clock. Generally it would have a winding arbor here on the dial which you would insert a key and crank it crank the weight up. The style is a great example of a dial or clock that leaves the clock world and enters the poker world. The paint is so vibrant. The colors are just fantastic. It has this wonderful signature that honestly as good as I've ever seen. What's interesting is Truesdale is name spelled incorrectly. It should be an easy here after the L and it's been left out and it's probably to balance the

entire name. OK. Also this three is really the reverse. It's it's rotated outward where the bottom generally would be turned in. But the dial really somebody in the folk art world that they would probably actually take this out and put this on the wall and display it like that. A wonderful clock you have any idea what the value would be 25 years later. No I I paid a thousand dollars for that it was worth that to me then and to me. Yeah I guess that's what I would consider the value today in a retail situation. I would expect this clock to sell in the 4 to $5000 a month really because of the dial. It's just fantastic. It's one of the best I've ever seen. Thank you and that's that's great news.