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A WILLIAM AND MARY EBONISED STRIKING BRACKET CLOCK
Thomas Tompion Londini Fecit, No. 261
the case with typical laurel-tied gilt-metal handle to the cushion-moulded top, foliate pierced wood sound frets to the front door, sides and rear door, foliate cast gilt-metal escutcheons to the front door and on block feet, the 7x8in. dial signed Tho Tompion Londini Fecit within a wheatear engraved reserve flanked by subsidiary silvered rings for pendulum regulation and strike/silent with blued steel arrow-head pointers, silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with sword-hilt half hour markers and typical finely sculpted blued steel hands, the finely matted centre with aperture for the Tudor Rose engraved silvered mock pendulum, double-screwed female mask-and-foliate spandrels, latches to the dial feet and to the seven ringed movement pillars with twin chain fusees, verge escapement with steel-suspended pendulum secured to the regulation arm with foliate engraved cocks, pull quarter repeat on two bells activated on either side on Tompion's system via twin blued steel levers with single foliate engraved cock, the backplate, punch numbered 261 at the base, signed Tho Tompion Londini Fecit within a foliate engraved cartouche in the centre surrounded by profuse engraved scrolling foliage and flowerheads, the movement secured to the case with chamfered backplate brackets and two steel bolts through the base board 14½in. (37cm.) high
