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A good mid 19th century repeating travelling clock Dent, London, No.731 2
11 December 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £9,062.50 inc. premium
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A good mid 19th century repeating travelling clock
Dent, London, No.731
The ebonised five-glass case surmounted by a gilt brass handle of octagonal section with foliate uprights, over a stepped concave and ripple-moulded cornice over bevelled glazed panels on a plinth base squat bun feet, the signed 3.5 inch enamel Roman dial with minute track and lozenge quarter marks and blued steel moon hands within a pierced and engraved gilt foliate scroll mask on a blued metal ground, within a gilt sight ring, the signed and numbered twin fusee movement with maintaining power and lever platform escapement with cut and compensated bimetallic balance, striking the hours on a coiled blued-steel gong, repeating via a button mounted in the side glass, the backplate with strike/silent lever and hand-setting knob, accessed on depression of a hidden lever behind the rear left hand foot. Together with a large brass winding and case key. Ticking and striking well. 25.5cm (10ins) high (2)
The ebonised five-glass case surmounted by a gilt brass handle of octagonal section with foliate uprights, over a stepped concave and ripple-moulded cornice over bevelled glazed panels on a plinth base squat bun feet, the signed 3.5 inch enamel Roman dial with minute track and lozenge quarter marks and blued steel moon hands within a pierced and engraved gilt foliate scroll mask on a blued metal ground, within a gilt sight ring, the signed and numbered twin fusee movement with maintaining power and lever platform escapement with cut and compensated bimetallic balance, striking the hours on a coiled blued-steel gong, repeating via a button mounted in the side glass, the backplate with strike/silent lever and hand-setting knob, accessed on depression of a hidden lever behind the rear left hand foot. Together with a large brass winding and case key. Ticking and striking well. 25.5cm (10ins) high (2)
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Provenance:
Sold in these rooms 20 June 2012, Lot 110.
A similar example is illustrated in Roberts, D. (1993) Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks. Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, page 304, which shares a similar movement.