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A GEORGE III EBONISED MUSICAL BRACKET CLOCK
William Frederick Strigel. London
the case with handle to bell top with simple acorn finials, gilt-brass fillets to the glazed sides and door with foliate pierced gilt-brass quarter sound frets, champfered angles, the brass-lined base on gilt-brass bracket feet, the dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, mock pendulum and calendar apertures in the matted centre, foliate spandrels, the arch with subsidiary rings for strike/silent and chime/silent flanking the recessed silvered signature plaque engraved Willm. Fredk. Strigel. London, the silvered sector above engraved with six musical tunes for March in Scipio/Rakes of Marlow/Minuet/Sukey Bids Me/Miss Fores Minuet/Charles Sedleys Minuet with large blued steel tune selection pointer, the massive five pillar triple chain fusee movement with original verge escapement, hour strike and trip repeat on bell, the music playing on the hour on 13 bells via 25 hammers and 17cm. long transverse-mounted pin barrel, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage, movement secured in case via bolts into base pillars 19in. (48cm.) high
William Frederick Strigel. London
the case with handle to bell top with simple acorn finials, gilt-brass fillets to the glazed sides and door with foliate pierced gilt-brass quarter sound frets, champfered angles, the brass-lined base on gilt-brass bracket feet, the dial with silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with pierced blued steel hands, mock pendulum and calendar apertures in the matted centre, foliate spandrels, the arch with subsidiary rings for strike/silent and chime/silent flanking the recessed silvered signature plaque engraved Willm. Fredk. Strigel. London, the silvered sector above engraved with six musical tunes for March in Scipio/Rakes of Marlow/Minuet/Sukey Bids Me/Miss Fores Minuet/Charles Sedleys Minuet with large blued steel tune selection pointer, the massive five pillar triple chain fusee movement with original verge escapement, hour strike and trip repeat on bell, the music playing on the hour on 13 bells via 25 hammers and 17cm. long transverse-mounted pin barrel, the backplate profusely engraved with scrolling foliage, movement secured in case via bolts into base pillars 19in. (48cm.) high