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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 135, fig. 3/47c; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 57, fig. 3-40.
Smith's exhibited a two train version of this unusual model mounted with figures of knights at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see Royer-Collard for an illustration and Roberts for a catalogue drawing). No other three train version is recorded. Another highly unusual feature is the chime change selector above chapter VI, seen also on a St Paul's Cathedral clock in Roberts (p. 75). See also lot 130, which has this feature.
D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 135, fig. 3/47c; F.B. Royer-Collard, Skeleton Clocks, London, 1969, p. 57, fig. 3-40.
Smith's exhibited a two train version of this unusual model mounted with figures of knights at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see Royer-Collard for an illustration and Roberts for a catalogue drawing). No other three train version is recorded. Another highly unusual feature is the chime change selector above chapter VI, seen also on a St Paul's Cathedral clock in Roberts (p. 75). See also lot 130, which has this feature.