No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more

An English brass, silvered brass and green marble weight-driven skeleton timepiece: 'The Whitlock Eagle Clock'

PROBABLY RETAILED BY DENT & CO. CIRCA 1965

Details

An English brass, silvered brass and green marble weight-driven skeleton timepiece: 'The Whitlock Eagle Clock'
Probably retailed by Dent & Co. Circa 1965
The narrow frame joined by six pillars, surmounted by a gilt-brass eagle set on silvered brass sphere, the engraved and silvered Roman chapter ring with blued steel hands above a silvered and engraved thermometer scale flanked by brass columns, on green marble double plinth and on gilt-brass bun feet, the weight-driven movement with front pull-wind, anchor escapement and fine beat adjustmnent, under glazed cover; pendulum, three weights
20¾ in. (52.5 cm.) excluding cover

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Derek Roberts, Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, Schiffer, 1989, p.224, fig.216.

More from Important Clocks and Marine Chronometers Including a Fine Collection of Industrial, Automata and Astronomical Clocks

View All