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LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A Victorian ebonised and brass-mounted quarter-chiming Directors' clock
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With flaming urn finials to bell top and foliate cast handles to the sides above silk-backed cast brass sound frets, the arched dial with foliate spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre and steel hands, the arch with subsidiary rings for chime/silent and eight bells/Westminster chimes, the eight day triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and hour strike on gong, quarter chimes and pull repeat on eight bells or four gongs, with pendulum holdfast (lacks retaining screw) to back plate
72 cm. high
See illustration
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With flaming urn finials to bell top and foliate cast handles to the sides above silk-backed cast brass sound frets, the arched dial with foliate spandrels to silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring, matted centre and steel hands, the arch with subsidiary rings for chime/silent and eight bells/Westminster chimes, the eight day triple chain fusee movement with anchor escapement and hour strike on gong, quarter chimes and pull repeat on eight bells or four gongs, with pendulum holdfast (lacks retaining screw) to back plate
72 cm. high
See illustration
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