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Eli and Samuel Terry Mahogany and Eglomise Pillar and Scroll Shelf Clock, Plymouth, Connecticut, 1824-1827. Weight driven wooden works, the white clock face painted in shades of red and blue at each corner with a floral spray within raised gold guilloche spandrels, the divided glass tablet reverse painted with a large stately country house and outbuilding in a landscape, within free-standing columns and beneath a scroll crest surmounted by three brass urn finials, affixed on the interior with a paper label printed "PATENT CLOCKS/ INVENTED BY/ ELI TERRY/ MADE AND SOLD AT PLYMOUTH, CONNECTICUT/ BY/ ELI AND SAMUEL TERRY/ WARRANTED IF WELL USED," above "N.B. The public may be assured that this kind of Clock will run as long without repairs, and be as durable and accurate for keeping time, as any kind of Clock whatever," flanked by "DIRECTIONS." H: 31.5 in., W: 17.625 in., D: 4.75 in.