A rare oak globe mantel timepiece, Theodore Timby, American, circa 1865

the open spring brass movement with steel pallets and balance wheel connected to a horizontally mounted 6-inch terrestrial globe signed Joslin's containing the latest discoveries, Boston, Gilman Joslin 1860, drawn and engraved¿ by W.B.Annin, attached to a two¿x 12 paper hours ring revolving against a fixed pointer, lacking the minutes sector, the case with broken-arch moulded cresting, turned¿ giltwood central finial and pendant acorn side finials, the rectangular moulded plinth concealing the movement and with original printed paper label on the interior inscribed Timby's Solar Timepiece, Patented 1863, No.151, with later ¿plain inspection door at the front

A similar clock was sold Sotheby's New York, Masterpieces from the Time Museum lot 1133 14th/15th October 2004

Theodore Timby of Baldwinsville, New York patented this clock in 1863. The clocks were made under licence by Dr L.E.Whiting of Saratoga Springs, approximately six hundred examples were manfactured. The half-completed pieces were shipped to Boston where Gilman Joslin, a globe maker, added the globe.