Lot 201: C.1785, {Nathan} Adams, Danvers, Massachusetts, very rare Mass shelf clock, brass dial, with rolling moon and seconds bit. Condition: the mahogany case retains old finish, made with a broken arch hood, bracket feet and a lower door with applied

C.1785, {Nathan} Adams, Danvers, Massachusetts, very rare Mass shelf clock, brass dial, with rolling moon and seconds bit. Condition: the mahogany case retains old finish, made with a broken arch hood, bracket feet and a lower door with applied fluted pilasters. Two lead weights are later, minute hand replaced {cut to match & not obvious}, one lower hood molding replaced, top door {with tulips} replaced in 1955. Provenance: Sheldon Hoch purchased this clock at Bourne's Anthony Sposato Sale #1, Hyannis, lot 72, Oct 29, '85. Also appears in The American Clock, page 107, fig 224, and again in Horology Americana, page 34. Foto credit, full view only, A.R. Lieberman. Ht 37.2" $20,000--$30,000