PAYNE & CO. LONDON; THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
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A Victorian gilt-metal quarter striking giant carriage clock
Payne & Co. London; third quarter 19th century
The case with bevelled glasses throughout and surmounted by a reeded handle, gilt-brass rear door with foliate pierced frame and shuttered wind and hand set apertures, the white enamel Roman chapter ring with blued steel hands, the centre and mask intricately engraved with scrolling foliage and signed below within an elaborate cartouche Payne & Co 163 New Bond Strt. London, the substantial twin chain fusee movement with five vase-shaped pillars, Harrison's maintaining power, the gilt platform with cut bimetallic compenstated balance to lever escapement, quarter and hour strike on two blued steel gongs of rectangular section, the plain back-plate engraved Payne & Co. 163 New Bond St. London
8¼ ins (21 cm) high
Payne & Co. London; third quarter 19th century
The case with bevelled glasses throughout and surmounted by a reeded handle, gilt-brass rear door with foliate pierced frame and shuttered wind and hand set apertures, the white enamel Roman chapter ring with blued steel hands, the centre and mask intricately engraved with scrolling foliage and signed below within an elaborate cartouche Payne & Co 163 New Bond Strt. London, the substantial twin chain fusee movement with five vase-shaped pillars, Harrison's maintaining power, the gilt platform with cut bimetallic compenstated balance to lever escapement, quarter and hour strike on two blued steel gongs of rectangular section, the plain back-plate engraved Payne & Co. 163 New Bond St. London
8¼ ins (21 cm) high