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American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
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- Sale 4728
Live
| Philadelphia
May 2 | 7:00 AM EDT
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 4728
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$4,000 – $6,000
The brass arched face fitted with painted moon dial and engraved with scrolling leafage and tulips enclosing "Jacob Godshalk/Philadelphia."
Provenance
According to family tradition, the clock was purchased from paper mill owner Henry McCall, Jr. of Trenton New Jersey in the 1880s by Samuel Meredith Dickinson (1839-1905), inherited by his son, Sackett Moore Dickinson (1884-1955), and willed to the present consignor.
The clock may have been part of the contents of Ellarslie (now the Trenton City Museum), an Italianate mansion designed in 1848 by John Notman as a summer home for Philadelphian Henry McCall, Sr. (1788-1859). Henry McCall, Jr. sold the house in 1881. It is possible that the clock descended in the McCall family and was originally owned by wealthy Philadelphia merchant, Archibald Alexander McCall (1727-1799) and his wife Judith Kemble McCall (1743-1829), who married in 1762.
From the Estate of Ann Dickinson Dale, Princeton, NJ.
