Chelsea Clock Company, "3/4 Banjo", ca 1930.
This clock is pictured and described in the book, "Chelsea Clock Company / The First One Hundred Years", page 119. The mahogany case is 32" long compared to their 42" long full size banjo. It came with a variety of movements, time only, strike, and so forth, and an eagle or finial, and different glasses. These glasses and the other accessories are identical to the clock referenced above. This clock has a time only movement, and it is running, a bowed glass, brass sash, painted dial, and original hands. The dial has chips around the winding arbor and the slow/fast adjuster, and is signed, "Chelsea / W.W.Wattles and Sons / Pittsburgh". The painted glasses are very good; it has the original Chelsea winding key, a good gold painted finial, all the spheres on the base, and brass accessories elsewhere. Ly-American Clocks, page 248.
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