{"id":8677,"date":"2023-01-15T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/?page_id=8677"},"modified":"2023-01-15T01:28:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T01:28:53","slug":"isaac-brokaw-bridge-town-nj-high-style-inlaid-mahogany-tall-case-clock-c-1810","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/antique-clocks-for-sale\/early-american-tall-case-clocks\/new-jersey-tall-case-clocks\/isaac-brokaw-bridge-town-nj-high-style-inlaid-mahogany-tall-case-clock-c-1810\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Brokaw Bridge Town NJ High Style Inlaid Mahogany Tall Case Clock C. 1810"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Isaac Brokaw Colonial New Jersey Tall Case Clock circa 1790 made in Bridge Town (Rahway).\u00a0\u00a0 The case is a wonderful example of the \u201cHigh Style\u201d of the period executed by local cabinetmakers at work in the Elizabethtown NJ area during the late 18th C.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The graceful, slender proportions of this case include: narrow waist flanked by fluted quarter columns, shaped waist door,\u00a0graceful\u00a0scroll moldings terminating\u00a0in beautifully carved floral rosettes, oval inlay in the panel below the cove molding and in the waist door and base panel continuing to straight French feet with a shaped apron.\u00a0 \u00a0The base is completely original.\u00a0 The height of the case is 97 1\/2 inches tall.\u00a0 The works are text book \u201cBrokaw\u201d with all of the characteristics documented in Bill Drost\u2019s 1966 landmark New Jersey Clocks & Watches Book: arched plates, smooth drums, countwheel strike, \u201cZ\u201d streak of lightning strike lever, bell stand mounts through suspension bridge, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 The works are clean with fresh cables and the clock runs and strikes fine after our complete professional restoration.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dial is original with beautiful spandrel decoration and lunar phases in the arch.<\/h1>\n

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