Important Americana
Important Americana
Property from the Collection of William E. and Anne H. Lewis, Columbus, Ohio
Auction Closed
January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FINE AND RARE QUEEN ANNE WALNUT TALL CASE CLOCK, WORKS BY GEORGE HOFF, SR. (1733-1816), LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1760
the interior door with affixed letter inscribed Philadelphia, March 20, 1917 / My dear Mrs. Jones, The clock which I have placed with you formally belonged to Mrs. Pratt, a niece of Stonewall Jackson, and according to Mrs. Pratt's statement to Mr. Drew, is one of two clocks that had been in Stonewall Jackson's family - Dr. Pratt was one of the faculty at Delaware College and moved away from Wilmington about 1899 to take up a professorship in a New England College - The clock has been in good running condition. / Very sincerely yours, Ella Clifton; ball feet replaced.
Height 94 ½ in. by Width 21 ½ in. by Depth 13 in.
Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson (1824-1863) m. Mary Anna Morrison (1831-1915);
Mrs. Pratt, niece of Stonewall Jackson;
Ella Clifton, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Jones, Philadelphia.