A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)

A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT

ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865

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A VICTORIAN BRASS EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SKELETON CLOCK WITH PIVOTED DETENT ESCAPEMENT
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, silvered and engraved chapter ring with shield chapters and subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: scroll plates with five double-screwed pillars, inverted train with maintaining power to single chain fusee, train wheels with five crossings, pivoted detent escapement to back plate; pendulum, winding key, later velvet-covered and ebonised plinth and glass dome
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 15¼ in. (38.5 cm.) wide; 9¾ in. (24.5 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 149-151, figs.a, b; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 29, fig. 2-15, 16. Evans is thought to have introduced his detented escapement c.1860. The majority of these clocks were timepieces with shield-shaped chapters, as with the present example.

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