GEORGE WILKINS, FRITH STREET, LONDON. CIRCA 1820

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A Regency ebonised and brass inlaid small musical table timepiece
George Wilkins, Frith Street, London. Circa 1820
The case with line and foliate brass-inlay to the front door and to the shallow-arched top, now lacking pediment and finial, fishscale frets to the glazed sides with foliate ring handles, the base on brass ball feet, the white enamel Roman dial signed GEO WILKINS. FRITH ST., SOHO, blued steel hands, the single chain fusee movement wound through the dial and with four ringed front-pinned pillars, Vulliamy-type deadbeat escapement planted on the backplate, the pendulum back cock secured to a further backplate behind the movement suspending a brass rod pendulum, the musical movement beneath the going movement and set off on the hour playing one of three tunes: Bonnie Lad, Highland Laddie, Bluebell of Scotland, all engraved on a silvered disc accessed beneath the main enamel dial by opening the front door, the music movement with chain fusee and spring barrel held within a sub-assembly behind the pin barrel and with a further assembly below housing the eight bells playing music via eight hammers
13 in. (33 cm.)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

THE ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased in May 1961 from Oliver Bentley, Leicester. This clock was said to have been a gift from the Duke of Windsor to his friend Graham Dilley Esq, vicar of Subenham, Leicestershire, a decorated submariner also known as 'The Sporting Parson'.

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