C.1841 Joseph (Shaylor) Ives, Bristol, Conn., 8-day time & strike round beehive, with rare fusee movement.
The mahogany veneered case is very good condition with a small chip on the base and some damage on the back edge of the top. There has been a veneer repair on the left side of the front molding and the veneer is missing from the door that surrounds the dial. The dial was repainted long ago and is chipping; name added, should be removed. This detached fusee clock is one of the earliest form of a coiled spring commercially available. Joseph S. Ives should not be confused with the more famous Joseph Ives who was his uncle. Joseph S. Ives secured a patent for the use of brass as a clock spring when he worked for E. C. Brewster. The brass rack striking movement has its original Geneva stops and is numbered 4061. He must have sold some of these clocks with his label after he left Brewster's. The Fenn tablet is old, but has been cut down and moved into this door (should have been a cut tablet). A picture of a similar clock by Brewster can be found in Ken Roberts book The Contributions of Joseph Ives to Connecticut Clock Technology 1810-1862, page 211, note, to date this is the only clock known with its original Ives label. This is the clock written up in the Nawcc Bulletin, vol XIII, #3, April 1968, page 229, where Ed LaFond reports on Fred Heisely, and referred to by Roberts. Included with the clock is a letter from Ed LaFond to Peg Robertson (the consignor), dated Feb 9, 1968, which attests to the uniqueness of the clock. The label inside is intact, but largely hidden by the gong base; which must be removed to read label. Height 19 inches
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