Tall case clock

This is one of the most remarkable American tall clocks known. Visually arresting, it is distinguished by its great height and by an ambitious combination of inlays, brass and silver mounts, carcass shaping, and projecting ornaments. According to longstanding oral tradition, the case and the eight-day movement were commissioned around 1809 by Sebastian "Boston" Wygal (1762-1835) of Montgomery (now Pulaski) County in the southern Valley of Virginia. The son of Johannes Weygel, a German-speaking Swiss immigrant who disembarked at Philadelphia in 1750 and moved to the southern backcountry, Sebastian Wygal was a prosperous man who owned a number of slaves and more than two thousand acres of land near Dublin and elsewhere in Montgomery County, Virginia. Since his home was located on the wagon road from Baltimore to Tennessee, Wygal also operated both a tavern and a wagon transport service to Richmond.
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