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WOODEN WORKS - SILAS HOADLEY am.- PILLAR & SCROLL ?
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's a fantastic, very old, American , wooden, clock work. The works are not marked. I believe this movement to be made by SILAS HOADLEY (apprentice to Eli Terry), I think it's for a PILLAR & SCROLL shelf clock. The escape wheel is 42 tooth (makeing a short drop pendlum) T are ivory pinion bushings (typical for Hoadley) The main front & back boards (plates) are of Golden Oak, the gears are Cherry, pinions are Mountain Laurel. I see two gears ( the smaller gears with wide flat teeth) that have teeth missing, the rest appear to be all intact, all gears look to be t Please see the pictures and feel free to email any questions.
Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadley were two other examples of the early American self-made man. They represented the poor families, and had served their long apprenticeships to learn the trade of joining. Yet in 1810, when Hoadley was twenty- four and Thomas was twenty-five, they were able to buy Terry's clock manufactory, which was the largest in America. Seth Thomas founded a long line of clock makers, and a firm which is still in business manufacturing one of the superior clocks of America. Silas Hoadley, after leaving the partnership with Thomas in 1814, prospered almost as well as his friend. He became a High Mason, a Democratic State Assemblyman, and State Senator before his death in 1870. 
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