JAMES MCCABE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, NO.1896. CIRCA 1835

Details

A Victorian giant gilt-brass striking carriage or mantel clock
James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London, No.1896. Circa 1835
The case with stepped and moulded top, chamfered front angles terminating in volutes, with arched glazed side panels, on base with moulded gallery and projecting front angles, raised on bun feet, the arched silvered dial within a silvered sight ring, with engraved Roman chapter ring, signed above James McCabe, Royal Exchange, London and numbered to the centre 1896, blued steel moon hands, with five tapering pillars to the twin chain fusee movement, large gilt platform with plain gilt balance to underslung lever escapement, maintaining power, trip repeat, strike on bell, with repeat signature and number to the rear, re-gilt; with numbered key
8½in. (21.5cm.) high

Literature

Derek Roberts Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, Schiffer 1993, p.292, Fig.20-4.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

In his discussion of this clock Derek Roberts (op. cit.) points out that the absence of a handle suggests that it might best be described as a mantel clock, despite its lever escapement. The use of this case style for a mantel clocks precedes its use on carriage clocks by some 15 years.

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