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An unusual Victorian brass scroll frame skeleton timepiece with balance wheel regulation
An unusual Victorian brass scroll frame skeleton timepiece with balance wheel regulation

CIRCA 1840

細節
An unusual Victorian brass scroll frame skeleton timepiece with balance wheel regulation
Circa 1840
With stepped rosewood plinth, the silvered chapter ring with engraved numerals, the eight day movement with single chain fusee with skeletonised barrel, with lever variant straight line escapement with two impulse pins, maintaining power, wheels with five crossings; with associated glass dome (cracked); winding key
13½ in. (34 cm.) high, 13¾ in. (35.5 cm.) high over dome

拍品專文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1987, pp.199-200, figsa,b.