A VICTORIAN BRASS STRIKING EIGHT DAY LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL SKELETON CLOCK
A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)
A VICTORIAN BRASS STRIKING EIGHT DAY LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. CIRCA 1865

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A VICTORIAN BRASS STRIKING EIGHT DAY LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates with three spires and joined by six double-screwed pillars, twin chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, dead beat anchor escapement, rack strike/trip repeat on gong, passing half hour strike on bell; gridiron pendulum, winding key, white marble plinth and glass dome
20 in. (51 cm.) high, excluding dome; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide; 9½ in. (24 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 130, pl. 3/44 a, b; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 13, figs. 1-14/16.