JAMES MCCABE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, NO. 3275. CIRCA 1855

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A VICTORIAN GIANT GILT-BRASS STRIKING AND REPEATING EIGHT DAY CARRIAGE CLOCK
JAMES MCCABE, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, NO. 3275. CIRCA 1855
CASE: typical McCabe design with reeded handle, bevelled glasses to top and sides, repeat button to top, strike/silent to shuttered solid rear door DIAL: engraved and silvered dial with subsidiary seconds and signed 'JAMES MCCABE/ROYAL EXCHANGE/LONDON/3275', blued steel hands MOVEMENT with twin chain fusees, maintaining power, under-slung lever escapement with monometallic balance to gilt platform, strike/repeat on gong, back plate signed 'James McCabe/London/3273'; original brass-bound mahogany travel box with recessed brass handle, articulated sliding front cover; original numbered winding key
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) high, handle down; 6 in. (15 cm.) wide; 5 in. (13 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

An almost identical McCabe carriage clock (No. 3092), also with travel box, is illustrated, D. Roberts, Carriage and Other Travelling Clocks, Atglen, 1993, p. 296, fig. 20-12. A similar McCabe example with engraved gilt-brass dial (No. 2739) sold Christie's London, anonymous sale, 4 June 2009, lot 117 (£20,000). An example with silvered dial (No. 3299) was sold Sotheby's London, 10 April 2006, lot 47 (£13,800).
James McCabe was apprenticed to Reid and Auld, Edinburgh and became Free of the Clockmakers' Company in 1822. He continued his father's business in The Royal Exchange, London and established strong trading relationships in India, exporting large numbers of clocks and watches.

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