Important Americana
Important Americana
Property from the Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III
RARE WILLIAM AND MARY FIGURED WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK, WORKS BY AUGUSTINE NEISSER, GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1740
Auction Closed
January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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RARE WILLIAM AND MARY FIGURED WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK, WORKS BY AUGUSTINE NEISSER, GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1740
works inscribed Aug Neisser; upper portion of hood replaced.
Height 90 ¾ in. by Width 21 in. by Depth 11 ½ in.
Alan Miller, Quakertown, Pennsylvania;
Vogel Collection no. 634.
Augustine Neisser was a Moravian clockmaker, born in Schlen in 1717. He immigrated to Savannah, Georgia in 1736, and traveled with a group that settled in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1739, but chose to live in Germantown. In 1746, he was commissioned to construct the tower clock for the great Moravian Church in Bethlehem. For additional information on Neisser, see James W. Gibbs, Pennsylvania Clocks and Watches: Antique Timepieces and Their Makers, (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984), pp. 55-7.