Antiques Roadshow; Appraisal

My husband's parents. Bought a house in Eugene. And there was a storage room under the house and behind the storage room there was a crawl space and in the. Crawl space there was a. Cardboard box. And in the cardboard box was this closet. Although it was in poor condition when we first saw it the wood was all gray. And some of the paint was. Not there. My husband's parents took it to a man and have the restoration done on it. And the man. Who. Restored it offered to trade. This clock and he would give us another car. But they decided to keep it so we still have the car. What you have is actually a clock made by hand Sony or brass and copper company. And this clock was first catalog I think sometime around 1874. This is a really unusual model so not a model that's easily found. They made several of the models in more quantity. This particular example is unusual in that it has a round top and it also has the round bottom. It is called the Roman. Its catalog is a calendar clock.

And. The repairman that used it really a wonderful job and restoring the wood in the finish which happens to be rosewood which is an exotic bird. But he forgot to replace the calendar here. And there's a calendar hand that would be attached here would indicate the day of the month on the outside. In addition to that there should also be the month in this lower screen here. All things which are very easy to put back into original order. It has a circular door and it has a very colorful painted. Design. With this sort of alternating pen will and reading Green and of course the gold details a very very nice. And the center is left open so that you can view the pendulum and the clock is in motion. It really has everything going for for a Connecticut wall clock. Do you have any idea what it's worth. I'm hoping it's. You know. Worth more than that cost of the repairs. And that was roughly 100 I think around $100 probably. Well I think. In today's economy you would expect to see this clock in a retail outlet somewhere in the

neighborhood of about a thousand dollars.