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Lot 132

A good second half of the 19th century English quarter striking carriage clock
Warwick, Regent Street, London

16 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,250 inc. premium

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A good second half of the 19th century English quarter striking carriage clock

Warwick, Regent Street, London
the facetted handle with central tied bud section over a large bevelled glass inspection panel and crisply cast anthemion cornice set on reeded Doric columns to an anthemion cast base and bun feet, the 3.5 inch signed enamel Roman dial with minute track and lozenge quarters enclosing trefoil hands, within a gilt engraved foliate mask, the twin chain fusee movement with maintaining power to the going train terminating in a large gilt platform with monometallic balance and English lever escapement with engraved regulation scale, the strike train with rack strike for the hours and quarters on two long circular-section blued steel gongs mounted on the backplate, the backplate further set with a strike/not strike lever, hand setting dial and bold copperplate signature 29cms (11.5ins) high

Footnotes

A more elaborate version of this case sold by Parkinson and Frodsham and made for the export market is illustrated in Roberts 'Carriage and other Travelling Clocks', Schiffer 1993, page 284.

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