Lot 625
A good late Victorian mahogany-cased three-train chiming table clock. Anonymous, circa 1890....
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Lot 625
A good late Victorian mahogany-cased three-train chiming table clock. Anonymous, circa 1890....
Lot 625
Lot Description
A good late Victorian mahogany-cased three-train chiming table clock. Anonymous, circa 1890. Having a 7.5-inch arched brass dial, the silvered chapter ring with Roman hours and Arabic minutes plus fleur-de-lis half hour divisions framing a matted centre, beneath three silvered subsidiary seconds dials for Chime/Silent, Slow/Fast and Chime on 8 Bells/Westminster Chime respectively, the chain-driven triple-fusee movement, stamped 41 quarter-chiming on a carillon or on four coiled gongs via a pin-barrel and hour-striking on a fifth, the break-arched case with berry finial to the podium surmount over reeded Corinthian columns flanking a bevelled arch-glazed door with shell and scroll mounts, the fluted frieze on ribbon and floral swag plinth and gadrooned bun feet, 30.5", (77.5cm) high.
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
Dial - very minor rubbing but generally excellent.
Movement - appears sound.
Case - some knocks to back edge and spotting/tarnishing to columns, otherwise very good.
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