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A George I ebonised striking bracket clock with pull quarter repeat, circa 1715
The case with brass handle to the inverted bell top, later sounds frets to the glazed sides and doors, the dial with silvered Roman chapter ring with sword hilt half hour markers and diamond half quarter markers, pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and later applied silvered plaque engraved Thos. Tompion & Edw Banger LONDINI FECIT, crown-and-sceptre spandrels, the arch with silvered subsidiary calendar ring with florally engraved centre and flanked by cherub spandrels, the movement with six ringed pillars (centre pillar originally latched), verge escapement with later pendulum and backcock, rack strike on a later bell, pull quarter repeat on six bells via six hammers, the backplate engraved with scrolling foliage within a wheatear engraved border now engraved along the base Thos. Tompion & Edw Banger LONDINI FECIT, later pendulum holdfast - 15¾in. (40cm.) high
The case with brass handle to the inverted bell top, later sounds frets to the glazed sides and doors, the dial with silvered Roman chapter ring with sword hilt half hour markers and diamond half quarter markers, pierced blued steel hands, the matted centre with mock pendulum aperture and later applied silvered plaque engraved Thos. Tompion & Edw Banger LONDINI FECIT, crown-and-sceptre spandrels, the arch with silvered subsidiary calendar ring with florally engraved centre and flanked by cherub spandrels, the movement with six ringed pillars (centre pillar originally latched), verge escapement with later pendulum and backcock, rack strike on a later bell, pull quarter repeat on six bells via six hammers, the backplate engraved with scrolling foliage within a wheatear engraved border now engraved along the base Thos. Tompion & Edw Banger LONDINI FECIT, later pendulum holdfast - 15¾in. (40cm.) high
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