Antique Bronze Marine Clock - Tiffany & Co. - Owned by Director Herman Shumlin

Description

I am selling a wonderful marine clock sold by Tiffany & Co. with a great provenance.  This clock was given and inscribed as a Christmas gift to renowned director/producer Herman Shumlin in 1930 from the Grand Hotel Company (Broadway production that he
produced and directed)
.  It is made of solid, heavy bronze and stands on a wooden base.  Has brass circling the clock face, which has tarnished with time.  Glass on face in good condition.  It is key wound (included), but presently needs servicing.  Winds well and the chime still works. Some wear to the clock face.  Door does not latch tight.  Overall - in good
condition for its age.  The owner says that it has always worked fine, but has been sitting gathering dust for over 25 years without use.  It was won at a theatrical auction many years ago by a well-known character actor who appeared in many films and television shows and comes from his estate.
Cast as a ship's wheel, the Chelsea Clock Co., of Boston is the maker, the steel dial, now worn, once read TIFFANY & CO. / NEW YORK and SHIP'S BELL. The clock is set into its original bronze and mahogany stand and is
17.5 in tall.
With key; needs servicing; some scuffs to the mahogany; light verdigris to the clock case.
Herman Shumlin
(December 6, 1898,
Atwood, Colorado
– June 4, 1979, New York City) was a prolific
Broadway
theatrical director
and
theatrical producer
beginning in 1927 with the play
Celebrity
and continuing through 1974 with a short run of
As You Like It
, notably with an all-male cast. He was also the director of two movies, including
Watch on the Rhine
(1943), which he first directed and produced on Broadway in 1941.
During a Broadway career lasting 47 years, he was the director, producer or both of 45 productions, including three separate productions of
The Corn Is Green
(1940, 1943, and 1950). Other productions include
The Little Foxes
(1939),
Watch on the Rhine
(1941), and
Inherit the Wind
(1955).
Inherit the Wind
ran for 806 performances, and was
made into a movie in 1960
starring
Spencer Tracy
,
Fredric March
, and
Gene Kelly
, and has been remade three times since, in
1965
,
1988
, and
1999
. Mr. Shumlin taught directing in the Theater Department of The City College of New York in the 1960s.
See Wikipedia for a complete long list of his many accomplishments.