A late Victorian brass-inlaid rosewood quarter chiming bracket clock, the case on wood bun feet with gadrooned gilt-metal mounts, the plinth applied with an engraved presentation plaque dated 1890, the front flanked by detached reeded Composite columns, foliate cast sound frets to the sides, the arched top surmounted by five pineapple finials, the dial with silvered chapter ring with pierced blued hands and matted centre, winged cherub spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings in the arch for chime/silent Cambridge/Westminster chimes and regulation, the five pillar triple chain fusee movement chiming on 8 bells with strike on further gong, anchor escapement with steel suspended pendulum with holdfast on the plain backplate with securing brackets to the case

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A late Victorian brass-inlaid rosewood quarter chiming bracket clock, the case on wood bun feet with gadrooned gilt-metal mounts, the plinth applied with an engraved presentation plaque dated 1890, the front flanked by detached reeded Composite columns, foliate cast sound frets to the sides, the arched top surmounted by five pineapple finials, the dial with silvered chapter ring with pierced blued hands and matted centre, winged cherub spandrels, subsidiary silvered rings in the arch for chime/silent Cambridge/Westminster chimes and regulation, the five pillar triple chain fusee movement chiming on 8 bells with strike on further gong, anchor escapement with steel suspended pendulum with holdfast on the plain backplate with securing brackets to the case
30in. (76cm.) high

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