Lot 73
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A Victorian gilt-brass striking eight day carriage clock
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A Victorian gilt-brass striking eight day carriage clock

JAMES MCCABE, LONDON NO. 1759. CIRCA 1840

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A Victorian gilt-brass striking eight day carriage clock
James McCabe, London No. 1759. Circa 1840
The case with stepped and moulded top, glazed arched side panels, the moulded base on bun feet, the 3¼ in. wide arched silvered dial engraved with Roman chapters, blued steel Breguet hands and signed below James McCabe/Royal Exchange/LONDON/1759, the twin chain and fusee movement with five tapered pillars, maintaining power, gilt platform with gold three-arm balance to underslung lever escapement, strike/trip repeat on bell and signed James McCabe/Royal Exchange/LONDON; case regilded, winding key, case key
8½ in. (21.5 cm) high
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Lot Essay

James McCabe jnr succeeded his father as a clockmaker and became one of the most successful clock and watchmakers of the 19th Century. He was apprenticed to Reid & Auld and became Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1822. From 1838 his business operated under the name J.McCabe at 97 Cornhill, Royal Exchange, moving to 32 Cornhill after the Royal Exchange burned down. The present clock appears to be a simplified version of McCabe's well-known 'scroll' carriage clocks.

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