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Details
A late Victorian marquetry inlaid mahogany and brass-mounted striking table clock, circa 1900
The front with brass stop-fluted pilasters and the sides and rear with diamond-pierced brass sound frets, silvered convex dial with Roman chapters and steel moon hands, slow/fast regulation at XII, the eight day twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on gong, pendulum holdfast to back plate -- 20¼ in. (51 cm.) high
The front with brass stop-fluted pilasters and the sides and rear with diamond-pierced brass sound frets, silvered convex dial with Roman chapters and steel moon hands, slow/fast regulation at XII, the eight day twin chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and strike on gong, pendulum holdfast to back plate -- 20¼ in. (51 cm.) high
Provenance
Henry Cassels Kay 1827-1903, merchant with Briggs and Co. of Alexandria and Times Correspondent, Director of the Bank of Egypt and noted scholar of the Middle East; thence by descent.
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