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A Regency rosewood striking four-glass travelling clock
OGSTON & BELL, LONDON; CIRCA 1820
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A Regency rosewood striking four-glass travelling clock
Ogston & Bell, London; circa 1820
The case with recessed brass handle to the top with dentil cornice, chamfered brass lines to the angles and inlaid with a foliate design to the front door and frieze below, brass-lined side windows, the base on brass bun feet, the gilt dial with radial engine-turned Roman chapter ring with finely pierced blued steel heart-shaped hands, engine-turned centre, finely cast and engraved foliate spandrels, the five pillar twin chain fusee movement with plain steel balance to underslung platform lever escapement, Harrison's maintaining power, strike on steel gong fixed to the back-plate with foliate border engraving and singed in the centre Ogston & Bell Davies Street
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Ogston & Bell, London; circa 1820
The case with recessed brass handle to the top with dentil cornice, chamfered brass lines to the angles and inlaid with a foliate design to the front door and frieze below, brass-lined side windows, the base on brass bun feet, the gilt dial with radial engine-turned Roman chapter ring with finely pierced blued steel heart-shaped hands, engine-turned centre, finely cast and engraved foliate spandrels, the five pillar twin chain fusee movement with plain steel balance to underslung platform lever escapement, Harrison's maintaining power, strike on steel gong fixed to the back-plate with foliate border engraving and singed in the centre Ogston & Bell Davies Street
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high