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Lot 127

A mahogany wall timepiece with eight inch dial and verge escapement
The dial signed G Staples, London

12 December 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

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A mahogany wall timepiece with eight inch dial and verge escapement

The dial signed G Staples, London
The eight inch convex engraved brass Roman dial with matching blued steel hands within a brass bezel and moulded cornice to a re-built backbox, the movement with tapering shouldered plates united by four knopped pillars, with gut fusee to the verge escapement with knife edge. (Restorations) 28cms (11ins) diameter.

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George Staples worked in London from about 1790 into the early 19th century.

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