An Edwardian Arts and Crafts mahogany quarter chiming longcase clock, the elaborate case with shaped panel to the plinth centred with a silvered panel with a floral relief, the trunk flanked by carved wood and fluted Composite columns, the door with glazed astragals with foliate carving and similar silvered relief panels above, the arched dial signed T. Wagner Ltd. Tunbridge Wells on a shaped silvered plaque in the foliate engraved gilt centre with subsidiary seconds ring, the silvered chapter ring with applied gilt Arabic chapters, pierced floral mask with subsidiary rings in the arch for chime/silent and Whittington/Westminster, the massive four double-screwed pillar movement, having deadbeat anchor escapement with beat adjustment and mercury jar pendulum with calibrated rating nut, chiming on 8 nickel-plated tubes with hour strike on a further tube, nickel-plate weights and winding key with lignum vitae handle

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An Edwardian Arts and Crafts mahogany quarter chiming longcase clock, the elaborate case with shaped panel to the plinth centred with a silvered panel with a floral relief, the trunk flanked by carved wood and fluted Composite columns, the door with glazed astragals with foliate carving and similar silvered relief panels above, the arched dial signed T. Wagner Ltd. Tunbridge Wells on a shaped silvered plaque in the foliate engraved gilt centre with subsidiary seconds ring, the silvered chapter ring with applied gilt Arabic chapters, pierced floral mask with subsidiary rings in the arch for chime/silent and Whittington/Westminster, the massive four double-screwed pillar movement, having deadbeat anchor escapement with beat adjustment and mercury jar pendulum with calibrated rating nut, chiming on 8 nickel-plated tubes with hour strike on a further tube, nickel-plate weights and winding key with lignum vitae handle
8ft.4in. (260cm.)

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