Wall Banjo
Wall Banjo
Boston, unknown , 8 day, mahogany banjo or patent timepiece, c1830.
Boston, Unsigned , 8 day, banjo or Patent timepiece, c1835
Boston, unsigned , 8 day, banjo or patent timepiece. Stenciled on the backboard is label that reads: "Henry Willard, Clock Case, Manufacturer, Washington St., Boston". Henry was the son of Aaron Willard, Sr., and half brother to Aaron Willard, Jr. He was
Brewster and Ingrahams, Bristol, Conn., 8 day, spring brass movement banjo timepiece.
C. 1930, Waltham Watch and Clock Co., banjo timepiece, using their 8-day car clock movement, with key wind set up on dial.
C. E. Beacham, Sisters, OR, 8 days, weight brass movement miniature girandole timepiece. Beacham's clock shop is still in business doing clock repair and producing handcrafted clocks.
C.1820, Willard School, 1-Wt, Cross banded banjo with period tablets.
C.1825, Sawin and Dyar, Boston, gold rope front presentation banjo clock, with naval tablet set.
C.1830, Aaron Willard Jr, Boston, weight banjo, 8-day, with a C.1875 bracket attached with 2 screws (can be removed).
C.1830, American Banjo or Patent timepiece, 8-day mahogany case.
C.1830, Attributed to Abiel Chandler, Concord, NH, seconds pendulum wall banjo, in a mahogany paneled case with carved trim. The sister to this clock [with gilt finial] appears in Distin and Bishop, page 248, fig.580.
C.1830, Boston Area Gold front banjo, 1-wt, 8-day.
C.1830, Boston Area Lyre banjo, in a mahogany case, 1-wt, 8-day with restorations.
C.1830, Massachusetts Gilt Lyre over box, 1-wt, 8-day wall timepiece.
C.1835, American banjo or patent timepiece, 8-day weight driven, with restorations.
C.1835, Boston area Astro Banjo, Willard school, highest quality movement with dead beat escapement and maintaining power.
C.1835, Horace Tifft, North Attleboro, Mass., 8-day banjo timepiece, weight driven.
C.1835, Unknown, 8-day banjo or patent timepiece [with the later applied name of Aaron Willard, Boston].
C.1835, William Pratt, Boston, Mass., 8-day banjo timepiece, weight driven.
C.1840, Attleboro area Banjo clock, now restored to appear as a Willard style, 8-day, weight driven.
C.1840, Attleboro Banjo Timepiece, 8-day weight driven in a mahogany paneled case with carved wood side arms.
C.1840, Attleboro Banjo Timepiece, weight driven, 8-day in a mahogany case with black/gold tablets.
C.1840, Boston Area Banjo, Gold front, 8-day weight driven with brass side arms, gilt wood finial and bracket, unsigned.
C.1840, Boston area weight banjo timepiece, of interesting construction with hinged throat and visible weight with brass cover.
C.1840, I(saac) Randell and Co., St. Albans, (VT), mahogany front timepiece, 8-day, weight, orig signed dial.
C.1842, Howard and Davis, Boston, No. 1 Banjo, a grained fruitwood case with meter pendulum and seconds bit, this model with external F/S adjust at top of case.
C.1850 Howard and Davis "Banjo No. 3", 8-day timepiece, weight driven, less dial.
C.1850, American banjo or patent timepiece 8-day weight driven.
C.1850, Attleboro Area banjo timepiece, 8-day weight driven, in a closed mahogany case with beveled edges and wooden side arms.
C.1850, Attleboro Banjo Clock, in a closed mahogany case, 8-day weight driven.
C.1850, Boston Area Weight banjo clock, 8-day timepiece, with restorations.
C.1850, Eli Holden, (Philadelphia), No. 5 Banjo, 1-weight, 8-day, in a dark grained fruitwood case.
C.1850, George D. Hatch, N. Attleboro, Mass, Banjo clock with 8-day time, weight movement..
C.1850, Howard and Davis, Boston, No. 2 Banjo, rosewood grained cherry case, with paper over zinc dial.
C.1850, Howard and Davis, Boston, Square Bottom, No. 5 banjo, in a grained cherry case.
C.1850, Southeastern Mass, Weight banjo, 8-day, in a mahogany paneled case, and with original movement, dial and weight.
C.1850, Unknown maker, Wood panel front banjo clock, 8-day time-only, weight movement
C.1860, A. Howard and E. Howard and Co., "No. 5 Banjo", earlier, 8-day weight driven timepiece, as-found.
C.1860, Attleboro, Mass, Geo. Hatch, [unsigned] for Dan'l Pratt and Sons, 49 Union St, Boston (at this address from 1853 to 1871). Pratt card tacked inside case.
C.1860, Banjo timepiece, 8-day with heavy restorations.
C.1860, E, Howard and Co., No. 1 Banjo, as retailed by David P. Davis (late of Howard and Davis), 15 Washington St, Boston (labels inside).
C.1860, English, Banjo Barometer with clock, with mercury tube intact, retailed by C. A. Canti, 4 Crofts St., Hatton Gardens (London).
C.1880 Harvard Clock Co., 8-day wall timepiece, weight driven, No. 230. The Harvard Clock Co. eventually became the Chelsea Clock Co.
C.1880, E. Howard and Co., Boston, No. 3 Banjo timepiece, 8-day weight driven.
C.1890, E. Howard and Co., "No. 4 Banjo", in a grained cherry case, weight driven, 8-day.
C.1890, E. Howard and Co., "No. 5 Banjo", 8-day weight driven timepiece, cherry case with rosewood graining.
C.1890, E. Howard and Co., Boston, "No. 1 Banjo" , eight day wall clock in a fruitwood case with rosewood graining, complete with original factory label.
C.1890, E. Howard and Co., Boston, "No. 5 Banjo", 8-day weight driven timepiece, with restorations.
C.1890, E. Howard and Co., Boston, No. 5 Banjo, 8-day timepiece in a cherry case with applied rosewood graining, weight driven.
C.1895, Boston Clock Co., Boston, Banjo Timepiece, 1-wt, 8-day in a solid mahogany case, serial No. 344.
C.1900, E. Howard and Co., Banjo No. 4, in a rosewood grained cherry case, 8-day weight driven.
C.1910, Banjo clock, 8-day, using curly maple for the case components, home-made.
C.1912 [dated on dial], a Home-Made weight banjo, using a Waterbury movement / pend / bezel kit available at the time.
C.1918, Waltham Clock Co., Waltham, Mass, Willard model weight banjo, 8-day, serial No. 6829, gilt bracket.
C.1920, E. Howard Clock Co., "No. 5 Banjo", 8-day wall timepiece with special original glasses to memorialize Mrs. O.D. Webster of Franklin, New Hampshire, who was the wife of one of the descendents of Daniel Webster.
C.1920, E. Howard Clock Co., "No. 5 Banjo", 8-day wall timepiece with special original glasses to memorialize Mrs. O.D. Webster of Franklin, New Hampshire, who was the wife of one of the descendents of Daniel Webster.
C.1920, New Haven Clock Co., "WILLARD" model, 8-day weight banjo.
C.1925, American, GIRANDOLE, weight driven 8-day, with maternal tablet.
C.1925, E. Howard and Co., "No. 95 Banjo", gold front presentation, with Mt. Vernon tablets and cameo of George Washington in the throat glass, and with signed Howard movement.
C.1925, E. Howard and Co., Boston, Model 95, weight driven banjo of solid mahogany with original dark finish, 8-day.
C.1925, New Haven Clock Co., WILSON, 30 Day timepiece banjo, with oval lower frame and glass.
C.1925, Waltham Clock Co., Mass, Mini banjo, model No. 1554, in walnut with rope accent.
C.1927 Sessions Clock Co., "York", 8-day banjo timepiece, pendulum style, with tablet of a coach stopped at the Betsy Ross house.
C.1927, Chelsea Clock Co., 8-day 3/4 size banjo timepiece retailed by Abercrombie and Fitch Co., New York, Constitution tablet set.
C.1927, Waltham Watch Co, No. 1816, painted crackle finish banjo timepiece, lever/ spring movement, 8-day.
C.1929, New Haven Clock Co., "Whalley", 8-day lever movement banjo timepiece.
C.1929, New Haven Clock Co., "Willis", 12-day lever banjo timepiece, with blue and silver Art Deco tablet set.
C.1930, Waltham Watch and Clock Co., 8-day lever movement banjo timepiece, with Perry's Victory tablets /mid-size.
C.1930, Waltham Watch Co., Electric banjo clock, 110v with cord.
C.1931, Hamilton - Sangamo, 110v, self winding banjo clock, with naval tablets.
C.1934, E. Ingraham and Co., "Treasure", 8-day time and strike (ding-dong) banjo wall clock, commonly called the 'Treasure Island'.
C.1935, American Girandole, attributed to Joseph Conlon, 8-day weight driven timepiece, in the pattern made famous by Lemuel Curtis, and with a C.1890 movement by E. Howard, convex dial and curved hands.
C.1962, Elmer O. Stennes, banjo timepiece, with tablets of Mt. Vernon and George Washington, and with original E. Howard movement.
C.1965, English, Biddle and Mumford, a banjo clock made with imported glasses, dial and pendulum (from the US) and a quality weight movement.
C.1970-?, American banjo or patent timepiece, 8-day weight, reproduction.
C.1972 (dated), Elmer O. Stennes, Weymouth, Mass, 8-day banjo clock, weight driven, in a cross banded mahogany case, marked MCIP.
C.1975, case by Sheldon Hoch, NY, in the style of Curtis and Dunning, and a C.1850 period movement and weight +moon hands.
C.1977 [dated movement], E. Howard and Co., No. 5 Banjo timepiece, 8-day weight driven in a solid mahogany case with walnut finish, serial No. 11.
C.1977, [dated], P. Libbey, Lyre Banjo, repro, 1-wt, 8-day, in a great tiger maple case, with a signed Kilbourn and Proctor movement.
C.1977, E. Howard and Co., Boston, MA, limited edition banjo clock made for the bicentennial with 8-day time, weighted movement.
C.1980, Foster S. Campos. Pembroke, Mass, miniature banjo clock in the style of a Howard No. 5, Plus an extra Waltham movement and Campos dial.
C.1987 (dated), Foster S. Campos, Pembroke, Mass, reproduction Howard No. 5 Banjo, weight driven, 8-day.
C.1990, Modern Banjo, made from a quality kit using a nice weight movement with brushed plates.
C.1995, Foster S. Campos, Pembroke, Mass, Repro No. 5 Banjo, weight driven 8-day, in a cherry case with rosewood graining, serial No. 203.
C.1996 (dated), Foster S. Campos, Pembroke, Mass, weight banjo, in a cross banded mahogany case with War of 1812 tablets (Perry's Victory).
C.2004 [dated], Wayne Cline, Bowling Green, KY, re-issue Diamond Head banjo timepiece, 8-day, weight driven, in walnut with contrasting satinwood inlay.
C.2004, (dated), Foster S. Campos, Pembroke, Mass, GIRANDOLE, 8-day, after the pattern of Lemuel Curtiss.
C.2005, (dated) Foster S. Campos, Pembroke, Mass GIRANDOLE, 8-day weight driven wall clock, time only.
Charles Babbitt, Taunton, Mass., "Shelf Banjo" clock, 8 day, time only weight driven movement in a mahogany case with bird's eye maple panels in hinged throat door and base and painted metal dial, c1820
Chauncey Jerome, New Haven, C.1850, No. 1 size banjo timepiece in a darkly stained cherry case, weight driven, 8-day.
Chelsea banjo clock, mahogany case with rounded mahogany frames, reverse painted glasses, the lower with seaside scene, the upper with gilt scrolls and basket of flowers, turned wooden bezel, Roman numeral white painted dial, steel moon hands, brass 8 day
Chelsea Clock Co. 8 day spring driven banjo or patent timepiece retailed by Shreve, Crump and Low, Boston in mahogany case with lower tablet picturing a scene of the War of 1812 battle between the Constitution and the British Guerriere and gilded brass
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston 8 day spring driven house strike mahogany 3/4 banjo clock, c1917
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, 8 day spring driven mahogany 3/4 banjo timepiece, c1965
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, 8 day time and house strike spring driven mahogany 3/4 banjo timepiece, C1950
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, for Smith Patterson Co., Boston, mahogany, 8 days, time only, 3/4 banjo clock 168305, 1925
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, Mass, 8 day, weight brass movement patent or banjo wall timepiece. Serial No. 1849
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, Mass., "3/4 Willard Banjo" timepiece, 8 day, time only, spring driven balance wheel movement with lever escapement in a mahogany case with back-painted glasses featuring Mt. Vernon, painted metal dial, and blued steel hands.
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, Mass., "Willard Banjo", Williamsburg Restorations reproduction mahogany and gilt case (only) made by Kittinger, c1982
Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, Mass., 8 day, lyre form banjo time piece, Serial No. 93089, c1913