PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE RICHARD WILD

A VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SCOTT MEMORIAL SKELETON CLOCK

ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865

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A VICTORIAN BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED EIGHT DAY TIMEPIECE SCOTT MEMORIAL SKELETON CLOCK
ATTRIBUTED TO EVANS, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM. CIRCA 1865
DIAL: pierced, engraved and silvered chapter ring with individual chapters, blued steel hands MOVEMENT: pierced gilt plates joined by five double-screwed pillars, single chain fusee, maintaining power, train wheels with six crossings, monometallic lever balance to platform escapement, replaced ebonised plinth with ormolu figure of Sir Walter Scott and dog; winding key
17 in. (43 cm.) high; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide; 8¼ in. (21 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A larger version of this model with balance escapement was sold Christie's New York, the R.O. Schmitt collection, 17 June 2007, lot 23 ($8160). More recently a pendulum-regulated example sold, a Private Collection of English Skeleton Clocks, Christie's London, 17 March 2011, lot 118 (£3125). This model is illustrated in D. Roberts, British Skeleton Clocks, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 61-63, figs.-20 and pp. 142-144, figs.-57 a, b and pl. 24.

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