Southern Chippendale Walnut Tall Case Clock

Circa 1800, carved walnut case, yellow pine secondary, hand-painted and gilt wooden tombstone dial with two subsidiary dials, dovetailed hood with broken arch pediment featuring round carved rosettes, fully turned columns, beneath brass finials, between applied moldings, over a rectangular case with chamfered stiles, cove molded base raised on bracket feet. Together with two framed photos of South Carolina family ancestors and alum who's family donated the clock

97 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.

From the Historic Collection of Limestone University, Gaffney, South Carolina
Limestone College, now Limestone University, was founded in 1845 in Gaffney, South Carolina, by English-born Baptist minister Dr. Thomas Curtis and his son William. Originally established as the Limestone Springs Female High School, it was among the first women’s colleges in the nation and the very first in the state. The institution found its early roots in a former resort hotel near healing springs, later struggling due to the Civil War and Reconstruction. It revived in 1881 as the Cooper‑Limestone Institute, thanks to benefaction from industrialist Peter Cooper, and adopted the name Limestone College.

The clock was an heirloom in the Curtis Family. Its earliest known records state that it was donated to the college by Judge J. J. Gentry (son of Sheriff L. M. Gentry), and by Corrine H. Gentry (daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall), and was made in loving memory of Julia Camp (Judge Gentry's mother), and Julia Emma Smith (Mrs. Gentry's mother.)

No longer retaining original movement (now with electrified movement), weights or pendulum; loss to one dial hand; dial loose with vertical crack with associated repairs and later mounting; a few scattered shrinkage cracks to the case base and left side; patched repair to hood door molding; later feet.
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