A French Great Exhibition small brass skeleton timepiece with calendar and alarm

MID 19TH CENTURY

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A French Great Exhibition small brass skeleton timepiece with calendar and alarm
Mid 19th Century
With white enamel chapter rings, the eight day single barrel movement with recoil escapement and silk suspension, alarm on bell in gilt-painted wood plinth, impressed to the underside L. BOGANEST, under glass dome; pendulum, winding key
9 in. (23 cm.) high, 10½ in. (26.5 cm.) high over dome

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, Pennsylvania, 1989, pp.102-103 & p.106, fig.96.
F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, NAG Press, London, 1969, p.70, fig.4-9.

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