Lot 127
127
A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF ENGLISH SKELETON CLOCKS (LOTS 117-134)
A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, RETAILED BY JAMES NEILL & CO., BELFAST. CIRCA 1865

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A VICTORIAN BRASS QUARTER-CHIMING EIGHT DAY YORK MINSTER SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, RETAILED BY JAMES NEILL & CO., BELFAST. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, silvered and engraved chapter ring, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced plates joined by six double-screwed pillars, triple chain fusees, train wheels with six crossings, dead beat anchor escapement, striking the quarters on a nest of eight bells and the hours on gong, the front plate with applied cartouche signed 'Jas. Neill & Co.BELFAST'; ebony rod pendulum with zinc bob, winding key, replaced marble plinth and glass dome
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high, excluding dome; 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 68-69, figs.-26c; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, pp. 11-12, fig. 1-13.

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