Hello Maria,
Thank you for sending in your Hall clock to mearto for appraisal. I will try to help you with that today.
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Painted and mahoganized basic wood contemporary Hall clock with interior storage cabinet associated with a movement and dial not made to fit with this case, case likely American made, dial and movement is most likely imported from Germany. Both were made in the modern era circa 2000.
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The hood with a broken arch pediment and lacking terminals has a plinth with center urn/spire finial. An arched hood cornice sits above the glazed dial flanked by four free standing block and turned painted colonnettes, two at the front and two at the rear of the hood.
A stepped molding leads down to the trunk section with its full length glazed door flanked by chamfered corners. A second stepped molding leads us down to the rectilinear base with what appears to be two cabinets with a single pull. At the base is a broad molding sitting flat to the floor.
The dial does not fit the dial mat nor even the glass over the hood door, so that it was taken from another clock and put in this case. The dial is a hammered brass and copper alloy arched dial with Roman hours, half hour markers, closed minute ring with Arabic markers placed every five minutes along the periphery of the dial. There are two machine stamped skeletonized steel Chippendale style hands. The hammered or embossed design in the dial center, spandrels and in the lunette are all of a contemporary pattern with large 'C' scrolls, medallions, grapes and shells.
The movement is not shown but is likely an imported German brass plate movement powered by the descent of the two (possibly three) brass canister weights, both wound by manually pulling the weights up onto the sprocket gearing inside the movement. Striking is usually on a set of metal rods, but I cannot see the movement. Usually a clock like this will run for eight days on a single full winding.
Condition shows that the wooden surface has been painted over with a mahoganized or walnut colored stain and has the original surface showing signs of flaking. Otherwise the case is not damaged. The biggest hurt to value is the use of the dial and movement from one smaller clock and this larger case.
i have compared your clock to others at auction with marriages of major parts to determine the fair market value. today's market is demanding of originality and having a case and dial/movement together by associatiion is a significant hurt to value.
Best of luck,
Daivd