Description:
Tall clock with a cherry case which was found by Dr. Edwin Thorn (1874-1920) of Deerfield in a corn crib at the Zebina Stebbins house in the Wapping section of Deerfield about 1900. Zebina Stebbins (1797-1879) was a miller and farmer who married Ruby Graves (1796-1877) of Sunderland in 1819. Ruby Graves was the daughter of Benjamin Graves (1760-1832) and Abigail Graves (1768-1843) of Sunderland. The clock could have been made at that time. There is a lable inside the clock door with her name and that of their son Baxter: "Ruby Stebbins Graves lived in the oldest house in Sunderland - date in chimney - Baxter Stebbins (b. 1829) never married lived with Christopher Stebbins (b. 1823), Senator." An accomplished amateur joiner, Dr. Thorn refashioned the missing bonnet of the top. The clock has a bonnet with a broken scroll pediment with three brass finials (ball sections replaced 1963) and an eagle on the center finial; over the upper section with a curly maple inlay pattern of a square with triangles in the center of the door; over an oval, curly maple inlay in the center base with its four maple-faced bracket feet; and a pine backboard. The lamb's tongues on the chamfered corners of the upper section are echoed in the inlaid square and triangles on the door. The wood face is painted with a bird on a branch in an oval above the face and fans in each corner. The works are wood.
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