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An unusual early Victorian Scottish rosewood four-glass library timepiece with patent detached lever escapement

JOHN TODD, GLASGOW. WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION DATED 1842

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An unusual early Victorian Scottish rosewood four-glass library timepiece with patent detached lever escapement
John Todd, Glasgow. With presentation inscription dated 1842
The case with brass-lined side panels, stepped and chamfered top and with fan mouldings to the top of the trunk door, on bun feet, gilt-brass sight ring to silvered and engraved arched dial with Roman chapters, with cut out in the arch showing vertcially-positioned three-arm balance wheel, flanked by signature for John Todd Glasgow, inscribed PATENT DETACHED LEVER, blued steel moon hands, the eight day single chain fusee movement with four bulbous pillars, wheels with five crossings, maintaining power, the back plate with presentation inscription to the back plate
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

The presentation inscription reads: Presented/to/Mr Johon(sic) Ross/by a few of his friends/to evince their gratitude/to him for Conducting/so long and so/ably the music/in/Greyfriars church/Port of spain 22nd/August 1812. The naivety of the engraving suggests that it was probably executed locally, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Greyfriars, a Scottish Presbyterian Church, was built in 1837.
John Todd is recorded in Trongate, Glasgow 1823 - circa 1850.