VINER & CO., LONDON. CIRCA 1845

Details

An early Victorian gilt-brass skeleton table regulator
Viner & Co., London. Circa 1845
The substantial pierced brass movement frame secured by four robust Egyptian pillars with blued steel screws, the going train with spring barrel and chain fusee with maintaining power, fine quality wheelwork terminating with pinwheel escapement and spring suspended pendulum with oval section polished steel rod with beat adjustment to the top of the crutch, the gilt dial with eccentric seconds ring to the top with star-pierced centre and blued steel seconds hand, signed Viner & Co., London above the Roman chapter ring with pierced blued steel hand and star pierced centre, the clock resting on two rectangular pedestals and further giltwood oval base and ebonised and brass inlaid plinth on bun feet
18 in. (46 cm.) high

Literature

Roberts (Derek), British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Colectors' Club, 1987, p. 51, illustrated figs. 2/3a, b & c

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

ALBERT ODMARK NOTES
Purchased September 23, 1959 from Gordon Small, Edinburgh.

Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks:
Unusually for an English skeleton clock it has pin-wheel escapement, a form of deadbeat, and this together with the maintaining power, wood-rod penulum with beat regulation and seconds hands makes it akin to a table regulator.

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