A Victorian oak and gilt metal mounted quarter striking bracket clock, the case with outset angles and fluted corinthian columns supporting the arched top with pineapple finials, doors to the sides with foliate cast sound frets, the dial signed J.W. Benson Ludgate Hill London, on silvered chapter ring, matted centre, pierced blued hands, subsiduary rings above for regulation and chime/silent, the four pillar triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and chiming on four gongs with hour strike on further gong, securing brackets to case -- 16¾in. (42.5cm) high, with pendulum.

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A Victorian oak and gilt metal mounted quarter striking bracket clock, the case with outset angles and fluted corinthian columns supporting the arched top with pineapple finials, doors to the sides with foliate cast sound frets, the dial signed J.W. Benson Ludgate Hill London, on silvered chapter ring, matted centre, pierced blued hands, subsiduary rings above for regulation and chime/silent, the four pillar triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and chiming on four gongs with hour strike on further gong, securing brackets to case -- 16¾in. (42.5cm) high, with pendulum.

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