"Night and Day": An American silver and coppered carriage clock, the design attributed to Charles Osborne, Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1883

spot-hammered surface, the front embossed and chased with a bat and rooster with copper accents, the top with spiral pearling, the swing handle attached to shaped hinges, the back with hinged door engraved with script monogram AHPS, plain white dial with black numerals, French movement by Drocourt, with key

John Loring, Tiffany's 150 Years, 1987, p. 114

modern screws underneath, minor dings to base, dial with hair crack and chip between center and 11, replaced glass, some abrasion to coppered surface
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Charles Osborne's hand is visible in many of Tiffany & Co.'s Japanesque silver designs of the 1880's. This clock features the pearling technique and waved lines that is characteristic of his work.

A similar but larger clock by Tiffany was sold Sotheby's, New York, June 15, 1998, lot 1689, where the hammering and mounting design was reproduced with permission of Tiffany & Co. Although not attributed at the time of sale, it features decoration that is recognizably Osborne's.