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An English brass striking miniature lantern clock
Second quarter 17th Century
The case with outset angles for the feet and corner finials securing the bell straps, foliate pierced and engraved side gallery frets, similar front fret, engraved William Bowyer at London, the dial plate with narrow Roman chapter ring with sword-hilt half-hour markers and half-quarter markers, single arrowhead hand, the centre tightly engraved with seven swirls of foliage, the vacant centre now lacking alarm disk, the movement going train reconverted to balance wheel verge escapement, countwheel hour strike, the brass back cover with vacant square holes indicating position of the alarm pulley, iron hoop and spurs unusually set into the brass backplate
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high
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