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BARRAUD & LUNDS, LONDON, NO. 2628. CIRCA 1870
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A fine late Victorian four train quarter striking and musical ebony and ormolu mounted table clock
Barraud & Lunds, London, No. 2628. Circa 1870
The case with shallow concave top with ormolu foliate mounts and surmounted by a butterfly on a gilt sphere, bronze and ormolu gadrooned urn and flambeau finials to the front, the sides set with ormolu doors cast as lyre and foliate sound fret panels, the front angles with ormolu caryatides, moulded base on foliate cast feet, the dial signed Barraud & Lunds 41, Cornhill London No. 2628 on a plaque beneath the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with blued steel hands, matted centre, well cast rosette and foliate spandrels, subsidiary rings in the arch for chime/silent and eight tune selection changing automatically every three hours and playing the following tunes; Sicilian Mariners Hymn
Last Rose of Summer
Rousseaus Dread
Blue Bells of Scotland
Rule Britannia
Gentle Spring
Those Evening Bells
Home Sweet Home
the massive movement with thick brass rectangular plates, four chain fusees and spring barrels, the going train with deadbeat escapement and massive ebony-rod pendulum, hour strike on a large gong, the quarters chiming on eight bells via eight hammers, the music playing on twelve bells via as many hammers and 12cm. long pin barrel, the backplate with pendulum holdfast and further signed Barraud & Lunds, 41 Cornhill London 2628
26½in (76.5cm.) high
Barraud & Lunds, London, No. 2628. Circa 1870
The case with shallow concave top with ormolu foliate mounts and surmounted by a butterfly on a gilt sphere, bronze and ormolu gadrooned urn and flambeau finials to the front, the sides set with ormolu doors cast as lyre and foliate sound fret panels, the front angles with ormolu caryatides, moulded base on foliate cast feet, the dial signed Barraud & Lunds 41, Cornhill London No. 2628 on a plaque beneath the silvered Roman and Arabic chapter ring with blued steel hands, matted centre, well cast rosette and foliate spandrels, subsidiary rings in the arch for chime/silent and eight tune selection changing automatically every three hours and playing the following tunes; Sicilian Mariners Hymn
Last Rose of Summer
Rousseaus Dread
Blue Bells of Scotland
Rule Britannia
Gentle Spring
Those Evening Bells
Home Sweet Home
the massive movement with thick brass rectangular plates, four chain fusees and spring barrels, the going train with deadbeat escapement and massive ebony-rod pendulum, hour strike on a large gong, the quarters chiming on eight bells via eight hammers, the music playing on twelve bells via as many hammers and 12cm. long pin barrel, the backplate with pendulum holdfast and further signed Barraud & Lunds, 41 Cornhill London 2628
26½in (76.5cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.