Lot Essay
ALBERT ODMARK NOTES Purchased Sotheby's, London, 19 October, 1954, lot 176, the collection of the late Percy Webster (by Malcolm Gardner).
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PROBABLY DUTCH OR GERMAN. SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Details
A Continental iron two-train weight driven chamber clock with alarm
Probably Dutch or German. Second half 17th Century
The iron scallop-arched dial plate painted with winged cherub heads at the top, indistinct silhouette city landscape beneath the gilt copper chapter ring with Roman numerals (1-12) and inner concentric Arabic numerals (13-24), single pierced steel hand, central calibrated alarm disk, the steel movement with square-section pillars, countwheel strike, alarm positioned to the right side of the plates, the bell secured to the top by means of a gilt brass knop, verge escapement with front-swinging pendulum, the side doors painted with the figures of St. Margaret standing on a dragon within an arched frame and the opposing door painted with St. John the Baptist, the iron backplate with iron spikes and suspension loop
Probably Dutch or German. Second half 17th Century
The iron scallop-arched dial plate painted with winged cherub heads at the top, indistinct silhouette city landscape beneath the gilt copper chapter ring with Roman numerals (1-12) and inner concentric Arabic numerals (13-24), single pierced steel hand, central calibrated alarm disk, the steel movement with square-section pillars, countwheel strike, alarm positioned to the right side of the plates, the bell secured to the top by means of a gilt brass knop, verge escapement with front-swinging pendulum, the side doors painted with the figures of St. Margaret standing on a dragon within an arched frame and the opposing door painted with St. John the Baptist, the iron backplate with iron spikes and suspension loop
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