VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Three French electrical escapement models
PAUL GARNIER, PARIS, CIRCA 1850
Details
Three French electrical escapement models
Paul Garnier, Paris, circa 1850
One with twin coils and steel contact bar above with the circuit made and broken via a revolving glass wheel filled with mercury, in a glazed mahogany display case; another operating on a rotary basis and housed within a rectangular glazed mahogany case; the third signed Paul Garnier Paris and numbered 47 within one of Garnier's skeleton carriage clock cases with circular base and glass dome secured to the underside of the base (3)
Paul Garnier, Paris, circa 1850
One with twin coils and steel contact bar above with the circuit made and broken via a revolving glass wheel filled with mercury, in a glazed mahogany display case; another operating on a rotary basis and housed within a rectangular glazed mahogany case; the third signed Paul Garnier Paris and numbered 47 within one of Garnier's skeleton carriage clock cases with circular base and glass dome secured to the underside of the base (3)
Provenance
Formally from the Atellier of Paul Garnier