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A good late 19th century striking turret clock movement John Moore & Sons, Clerkenwell, London. Dated 1888
12 December 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,500 inc. premium
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A good late 19th century striking turret clock movement
John Moore & Sons, Clerkenwell, London. Dated 1888
The arched frame cast with a line border and signed on the minute-hand setting dial, the wheels of five and six-crossings set within three upright pairs of uprights, the going train with maintaining power to the deadbeat escapement with heavy wooden rod pendulum terminating in a 'cotton reel' type bob and with double-jointed lead-off to the rear, the strike train with numbered countwheel strike on an associated bell, set on a custom made oak base, together with going and striking weights, winding crank The frame 52cms x 48cms (20.5ins x 19ins). Height including stand 1.72m (5ft 8ins).
The arched frame cast with a line border and signed on the minute-hand setting dial, the wheels of five and six-crossings set within three upright pairs of uprights, the going train with maintaining power to the deadbeat escapement with heavy wooden rod pendulum terminating in a 'cotton reel' type bob and with double-jointed lead-off to the rear, the strike train with numbered countwheel strike on an associated bell, set on a custom made oak base, together with going and striking weights, winding crank The frame 52cms x 48cms (20.5ins x 19ins). Height including stand 1.72m (5ft 8ins).