AMERICAN FRUITWOOD TALL-CASE COUNTRY CLOCK,19th century. Weight-driven time and strike brass works, unsigned. Painted round iron dial with Roman numerals. Arabic quarter-hour markings. Weights and pendulum appear original with brass bob depicting Cossack and inscribed "A Don Cossack". Shaped crest with spiral brass finials; glazed panel door flanked by turned columnar supports; pendulum case with arching hinged door and rectangular glazed aperture; on cove-molded, boot-jack shaped pedestal base. - 89 in. x 19 in. x 10 1/2 in. Estimate $900-1,200
Note: Works may be English. American cabinetmakers commonly utilized imported English clockworks during this period
