Lot 120
120
A VICTORIAN BRASS IVY LEAF SCROLL EIGHT DAY SKELETON CLOCK WITH PASSING STRIKE
A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)
A VICTORIAN BRASS IVY LEAF SCROLL EIGHT DAY SKELETON CLOCK WITH PASSING STRIKE

ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. CIRCA 1870

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A VICTORIAN BRASS IVY LEAF SCROLL EIGHT DAY SKELETON CLOCK WITH PASSING STRIKE
ATTRIBUTED TO SMITHS, CLERKENWELL, LONDON. CIRCA 1870
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: scroll and foliate pierced plates joined by four double-screwed pillars, single chain fusee, train wheels with five crossings, dead beat anchor escapement, passing hour strike on bell; gridiron pendulum, winding key, replaced mahogany plinth and glass dome
18¾ in. (48 cm.) high, excluding dome; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide; 9 in (22.5 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 57, fig. 2/12.

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