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A good late 19th century English striking skeleton clock with annual calendar and High Water indication Unsigned, possibly by John Moore and Sons, London 2
13 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,040 inc. premium
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A good late 19th century English striking skeleton clock with annual calendar and High Water indication
Unsigned, possibly by John Moore and Sons, London
The substantial pierced frame cast in the form of a twelve-leaf flowerhead surmounted by a star and raised on eight square-section columns on a velvet-covered ebonised base with glass dome. The silvered Roman chapter ring with floating half-hour markers and outer minute track set below a subsidiary dial giving time of high tide, above three further subsidiaries mounted on a shaped sub-plate giving date, day of the week and month. The substantial twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and vertical worm drive to the 'High Water' dial above, the pendulum with fine adjustment to the lenticular brass bob, striking the hours on a blued steel coiled gong set on a steel and brass rod and block. Ticking and striking. The frame 41cms (16ins) high. Total height including base and glass dome 51cm (20ins) high. (2)
The substantial pierced frame cast in the form of a twelve-leaf flowerhead surmounted by a star and raised on eight square-section columns on a velvet-covered ebonised base with glass dome. The silvered Roman chapter ring with floating half-hour markers and outer minute track set below a subsidiary dial giving time of high tide, above three further subsidiaries mounted on a shaped sub-plate giving date, day of the week and month. The substantial twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and vertical worm drive to the 'High Water' dial above, the pendulum with fine adjustment to the lenticular brass bob, striking the hours on a blued steel coiled gong set on a steel and brass rod and block. Ticking and striking. The frame 41cms (16ins) high. Total height including base and glass dome 51cm (20ins) high. (2)
Footnotes
The open petal-frame was most famously used by John Moore and Sons - their finest examples being the three skeleton clocks displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. One was sold to the Tsar of Russia and now resides in the Hermitage Museum, another was bought by Mr Joseph Langhorn who later bequeathed it to the Norwich Union insurance company in 1878, see Roberts, Skeleton Clocks, Antiques Collectors Club, 1987 Figs 3/30a and b, and Figs 3/31 a and b.