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JOHN CROSS, LONDON
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A Regency rosewood striking small travelling clock
John Cross, London
The brass-lined and inlaid case with recessed gilt-brass handle to a platform on the architectural top with acroteria, glazed sides, brass-moulded base on bun feet, gilt-brass serpentine bezel to the circular gilt Roman dial signed JNo. Cross, Charterhouse Square, London, engine-turned centre, blued steel hands (later minute hand), the movement with slender shouldered plates secured by five pillars, twin chain fusees, the lever escapement held within a watch movement arrangement on the backplate, strike/trip repeat on a bell
9in. (24cm.) high
John Cross, London
The brass-lined and inlaid case with recessed gilt-brass handle to a platform on the architectural top with acroteria, glazed sides, brass-moulded base on bun feet, gilt-brass serpentine bezel to the circular gilt Roman dial signed JNo. Cross, Charterhouse Square, London, engine-turned centre, blued steel hands (later minute hand), the movement with slender shouldered plates secured by five pillars, twin chain fusees, the lever escapement held within a watch movement arrangement on the backplate, strike/trip repeat on a bell
9in. (24cm.) high