A very rare American 30-hour clock movement designed by Joseph Ives, c. 1840, mounted in a figure-of-eight shaped laminated wood case of late Empire design. The case was mounted on a base board, flanked on each side by turned columns with finials. A full-length door contained the dial glass and a painted tablet. The brass movement was powered by a horseshoe-shaped thin steel strip, secured inside at the top. Fusee barrels attached to the great wheel arbours of the time, and striking trains had cords to each end of the spring; this may have been the earliest spring-driven Connecticut clock. It is among the few known direct fusee-operated mechanisms, and although the label within the case stated 'patent brass clocks manufactured by Joseph Ives', the specific patent covering features of this movement is unknown.