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A VICTORIAN WHITE MARBLE AND BRASS QUARTER CHIMING PRESENTATION SKELETON CLOCK
Smith & Sons. St. John's Square. Clerkenwell
The massive foliate-pierced frame with six double-screwed turned pillars, triple chain fusees, all wheels with six crossings, Vulliamy-type deadbeat escapement with simple gridiron pendulum, quarter chiming on eight bells via eight hammers and 6 in. long horizontally-mounted pin barrel, hour strike on further bell with spire finial, the foliate-pierced silvered engraved dial with individual Gothic Roman chapters within crown-engraved cartouches, pierced blued hands, the clock standing on a stepped white marble velvet-covered plinth, the top applied with the makers' plaque Smith & Sons. St. John's Sqe. Clerkenwell, the front applied with an elaborate silvered presentation plaque engraved Presented to Mr. Ebenezer Balch, by the Members of the British Empire Building Society 7th April 1869 with further plaque below engraved Ebenezer Balch born, London. 2. March. 1836. died. Sydney. 24. Septr. 1876; with original glass domed cover 28 in. (71 cm.) high; over dome (2)
Smith & Sons. St. John's Square. Clerkenwell
The massive foliate-pierced frame with six double-screwed turned pillars, triple chain fusees, all wheels with six crossings, Vulliamy-type deadbeat escapement with simple gridiron pendulum, quarter chiming on eight bells via eight hammers and 6 in. long horizontally-mounted pin barrel, hour strike on further bell with spire finial, the foliate-pierced silvered engraved dial with individual Gothic Roman chapters within crown-engraved cartouches, pierced blued hands, the clock standing on a stepped white marble velvet-covered plinth, the top applied with the makers' plaque Smith & Sons. St. John's Sqe. Clerkenwell, the front applied with an elaborate silvered presentation plaque engraved Presented to Mr. Ebenezer Balch, by the Members of the British Empire Building Society 7th April 1869 with further plaque below engraved Ebenezer Balch born, London. 2. March. 1836. died. Sydney. 24. Septr. 1876; with original glass domed cover 28 in. (71 cm.) high; over dome (2)