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An Edwardian Gothic quarter chiming longcase clock, the case with carved-wood decoration to the double footed plinth, arched glazed door, the hood flanked by out-set Gothic columns beneath the dentilled freize with trefoil-carved galleried top, the lancet-shaped gilt dial elaborately engraved with foliage within engine-turned hatching, silvered chapter ring applied with gilt Gothic chapters, large blued-steel fleurs de lys hands, subsidiary seconds within the dial centre, the arch with 3 subsidiary rings for hour strike/silent; chime/silent and Whittington/Westminster chimes, the massive four pillar three train movement with dead-beat escapement with mercury pendulum suspended from the backplate with fine crutch adjustment, chiming on 8 tubular bells with hour strike on further tube, 3 brass-cased weights

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An Edwardian Gothic quarter chiming longcase clock, the case with carved-wood decoration to the double footed plinth, arched glazed door, the hood flanked by out-set Gothic columns beneath the dentilled freize with trefoil-carved galleried top, the lancet-shaped gilt dial elaborately engraved with foliage within engine-turned hatching, silvered chapter ring applied with gilt Gothic chapters, large blued-steel fleurs de lys hands, subsidiary seconds within the dial centre, the arch with 3 subsidiary rings for hour strike/silent; chime/silent and Whittington/Westminster chimes, the massive four pillar three train movement with dead-beat escapement with mercury pendulum suspended from the backplate with fine crutch adjustment, chiming on 8 tubular bells with hour strike on further tube, 3 brass-cased weights
7ft.9in. (239cm.) high

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