Lot 115

Tiffany & Co.

New York

A historically interesting, precious 8-day-travel alarm clock in 18 K gold, with quarter repeater and box

Made from 18 K gold, this sophisticated quarter repeating alarm clock, retailed by Tiffany & Co., folds into a small compact design perfect for travel.

Henry Thompson Sloane was an American businessman during the Gilded Age. He was born in New York City on December 1, 1845. His parents were emigrants from Kilmarnock, Scotland. At the age of fifteen, Sloane began working in the family-run carpet and furniture company founded by his father in 1843. In 1852, his uncle John W. Sloane joined the firm and it was renamed W. & J. Sloane. He later became a member of the firm, and in 1870 was sent west to San Francisco to establish the California branch. When the California branch was founded in 1891, Sloane became a director and remained a member of the board until his death. He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death), and the Pilgrim Club. After a month's illness, Sloane died of pneumonia at the James T. Shewan house in Southampton, New York on September 18, 1937.
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