This clock was found locally on Craiglist this morning. It's an 8 day clock with Henry Sperry on the dial, and with a label of J.L. Cobb. The movement has no markings. A similar clock with J.L. Cobb label but slightly different movement was shown on page 189 of the April 1992 NAWCC Bulletin:
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It's approx. 16-3/4" high x 11-1/8" wide. Here are a few pictures...
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I really like those scroll front clocks!! Yours is the "full size" version and a pretty one. There were also miniatures. I have a number of the full size and miniatures with all sorts of movements. I even have one with a Welch movement and label. It's the very one Ken Roberts pictured in either his J.C. Brown or Forestville clock makers book. Can't remember which. Only one I have ever come across.
This case style could be veneered, veneered with gilt stenciled decoration, or ebonized with MOP inlay with gilt and painted decoration.
The doors could be plain or like yours, with ripple molding.
This style of case seems to have been a favorite of E & A Ingraham. That firm did not make their own movements, but procured them from others. So, one may see movements by Jerome, Terry, Downs and Co. (as in the example you linked to) or Terry, Downs and Burwell and so on. I am not sure that they were the sole makers of this case style.
Assuming your clock is all original, which I have no reason to doubt based upon the pix provided, it was quite the group effort. Mr. Cobb was most likely one of the assemblers/retailers who populated lower Manhattan at that time. Sperry was another. The movement is by Jerome. I suspect that your clock was the result of some sort of bartering between firms.
I was not familiar with J.L. Cobb. It did get me looking around.
See this Bulletin article:
240_61.pdf (nawcc.org)
Snowden Taylor used to list "unusual" makers in the Research column. He lists him at 338 Broadway, NYC in that article.
Even better, see this one:
301_221.pdf (nawcc.org)
Go to pages 228 to 229. Especially see the clock in figure 7A along with the accompanying pix of figures 7B and 7C. The movement in the clock in the Bulletin looks to me like a Morse? Otherwise, that clock should look very familiar? Even a similar tablet! I will say that most of the E & A Ingraham versions of this case I have seen have rather different tablets, often stenciled ones by Fenn or decalcomania. The tablet in your clock reminds me more of those I have seen in other Sperry clocks. Other differences are that the E & A Ingraham clocks often have an eglomise dial surround and the veneered cases are gilt stenciled typically on rosewood. That does often get refinished away.
An interesting bit about the label in your clock and that shown in this reference. They are similar though not the same. But they share one very interesting feature: both are labels for weight driven clocks! It seems that most of the reported clocks labeled by this person were weight driven ogees. So, when they had a spring driven clock, they just used what they had handy?
Enjoy your nice clock.
RM
