FROMANTEEL, CIRCA 1700/10, LATER ADAPTED DIAL

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A QUEEN ANNE TIMEPIECE MOVEMENT WITH PULL QUARTER REPEAT
FROMANTEEL, CIRCA 1700/10, LATER ADAPTED DIAL
The brass latched dial with engraved border, winged cherub spandrels, date aperture, ringed winding hole, now adapted with arch signed 'Fromantee (sic) London' and enamel chapter ring; the timepiece movement with pull quarter repeat on two bells, verge and crownwheel escapement, single train gut fusee, five latched and ringed pillars and engraved backplate signed 'Fromanteel'
6¾ in. (17 cm.) square brass dial

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Lot Essay

The style of signature to the backplate is comparable to that illustrated in P.G. Dawson, C.B. Drover & D.W. Parkes, Early English Clocks, London, 1982, plate 567, p. 398, to which is noted probably by Abraham Fromanteel (II, d. 1730).

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