FINE AND RARE FEDERAL INLAID AND FIGURED MAHOGANY TALL CASE CLOCK, CASE BY JOHN SCUDDER; WORKS BY ISAAC BROKAW, WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, CIRCA 1800

C.L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennsylvania.

John Scudder (b. 1770) was a cabinetmaker in the Rahway-Westfield, New Jersey area during the late 1700s and into the early years f the next century before leaving for Ohio in 1815. the earliest known record of John's work as a cabinetmaker is a hand written inscription on the label of a tall case clock reading "June the 5th, 1793, Made by John Scudder, Jr., a cabinetmaker in Westfield." In 1811 John married a Susanna Miller, whose sister, Rebecca, married John Brokaw, son of clockmaker Isaac Brokaw. For additional information see Walter Hamilton Van Hoesen, Crafts and Craftsmen of New Jersey, (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1973),pp. 52-3.