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- Sale 5994
Live
| Philadelphia
Nov 12 | 10:00 AM EST
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 5994
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
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Estimate$2,500 – $3,500
Dial inscribed "Isaac Reed Frankford".
H: 93 in.Reverend Thomas B. Montanya was born in New York City, and served as a chaplain during the War of 1812. He married Ann Edmunds of New York. Thomas and Ann's child, Amy Hart Montanya, married Stephen Yerkes of Warminster, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1831. After the death of Thomas, Ann moved to the Yerkes Family homestead at the corners of Street Road and Jacksonville Road, where she purportedly brought the tall case clock. According to the last owner in the Yerkes line, Amy Yerkes, "The clock stood in the beautiful hall where for many years it kept honest time."
Provenance: Private North Carolina collection.
Thomas B. Montanya (1769-1829) and Ann Edmunds Montanya.
Thence by descent to their daughter, Amy Hart Montanya (1811-1866) and her husband Stephen Yerkes, Warminster, Pennsylvania.
Amy Yerkes, who sold the clock to the consignor's father in 1954.
