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The Cluett family Aaron Willard striking lyre clock browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Instruments and Implements: Pre 1837 VR: item # 723903 Please refer to our stock # 5688 when inquiring.
Gordon S. Converse and Co. 57 West Lancaster Ave Malvern, PA 19355 610.722.9004 Guest Book $45,000.00 |
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| A rare and important carved lyre banjo clock signed Aaron Willard. The first lyre banjo clocks were probably made in the 1810s as a evolutionary development of Simon Willard's patented banjo timepiece of 1802. The style more closely reflects the tastes of the Empire or Classic period. Aaron Willard, Simon Willard's brother had a prolific business in the trade of all kinds of clocks which, in 1823, he established a "factory" in Roxbury, just outside of Boston. This lyre clock is rare, and the only known example by this maker to incorporate a strike mechanism. Following are excerpts from a letter from Harold Sack of Israel Sack to Stanley Sax, a former owner: "The Aaron Willard lyre clock is notable for several reasons. We know of no other example by Aaron Willard. Secondly, very few examples have strike mechanisms. Thirdly, while many lyre clocks have solid panels, those that have eglomise panels have a waist panel alone. Few examples have the lower door eglomise panel as well. The lower [panel of this clock has the national emblem with flags with banner inscribed "E. Pluribus Unum". I do not know of any greater panel on any lyre clock nor of any even approaching it." | ||||||
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